The US did break off from GB, like India did, but I’m guessing you are talking about Kenya. Obama was raised by his mother and his Anglo grandparents, then the mother and her Indonesian husband (former Dutch colony) and finally the Anglo grandparents. If I’m not mistaken he spent a couple of days with his father when he was a kid and he first went to Kenya in his late twenties. It is a major stretch to see an Indian immigrant and Obama as people with common background.[/quote]
India did not break off from britan like US did. This is very misinformed. India was occupied. US was colonized. Big difference.
And those events happened out of phase: i.e. british occupation in India happened because they made a conscious choice to use their resources to expand in India as opposed to US. A look at events around the world during the american revolutionary war will make this very obvious. Of course this goes against the popular narrative here where the starving continentals fought off the redcoats simply with courage and conviction.
You are right about the differences in the background though..Dinesh D’Souza & the family/community he comes from represents a tiny Indian elite experience that actively collaborated with the british during their occupation of India. And prospered.
Another big difference is that while folks who supported the redcoats simply migrated north after the American war of Independence, Dinesh’s community or of those who did not migrate never toned down their loyalty for the british even after they left. Except the transfer of loyalties occurred pretty fast with him as he immigrated here.
I guess this is why he feels very threatened by Obama senior, a person who came from a similar historical experience but with a different outlook. One chose to sing for dinner, the other chose to hunt instead and take a chance he might starve in return for keeping his self-respect intact.
