“Why some Americans love to hate Vivek Ramaswamy”, First Post, August 31, 2023:
“No sooner had certain sections declared the “skinny guy with a funny last name” the “winner” of the debate among eight candidates for the Republican nomination for the presidential election apart from the frontrunner Donald Trump (who did not attend) that the brick-batting started.
Vivek Ramaswamy should be immensely pleased. There is nothing quite like criticism to pump up the numbers. Remember what it did for another skinny guy with the funny last name back in 2008. Ramaswamy has not shortened his first name to Vick (though he did a brief turn as a college rapper named De Vek) unlike Nikki Haley or Bobby Jindal.
Nor has he infantilised his last name to something more ‘mainstream’. It remains defiantly four-syllabic and real, not made up like Nahasapeemapetilon, Indian-American Apu’s supposed surname in The Simpsons. And he is Hindu—unlike Bobby and Nikki—although he professes to concur with Judeo-Christian values…..”
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