Most of their upper-caste/upper-class South Asians are 'white' i.e. live 'white' American culture even back home. Check out any recent Bollywood movie on Netflix, those people may have brown pigmentation but in every sense they live and breathe 'white' culture, specifically white American culture. To say nothing about the influence of Raj which made sure that the upper-class know more about Shakespeare, Shaw, Eliot than any Indian author. That's just a fact and a fairly well-known fact at that. It is surprising Amy Wax does not know about this history but it is not surprising, therefore, that she would react the way did because one could reasonably guess that the source of her animus towards South Asians, especially South Asian women, is personal.
Most of their upper-caste/upper-class South Asians are 'white' i.e. live 'white' American culture even back home. Check out any recent Bollywood movie on Netflix, those people may have brown pigmentation but in every sense they live and breathe 'white' culture, specifically white American culture. To say nothing about the influence of Raj which made sure that the upper-class know more about Shakespeare, Shaw, Eliot than any Indian author. That's just a fact and a fairly well-known fact at that. It is surprising Amy Wax does not know about this history but it is not surprising, therefore, that she would react the way did because one could reasonably guess that the source of her animus towards South Asians, especially South Asian women, is personal.
Amy is triggered.