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Everyone Western Becomes White Eventually

June 11, 2025June 11, 2025X.T.MAmerica, Blog, Civilisation, Culture, Politics, RaceAfrican-American resistance, America, Assimilation, Bhutan Lhotshampa, Blog, Civilisation, Cultural integration, Culture, diaspora dynamics, Ethnic enclaves, Global migration, Immigration, Indian diaspora, Individualism, Intergenerational change, Jewish assimilation, Politics, Race, Racial identity, Second-generation immigrants, Western civilisation, Whiteness18 Comments

brown: if the fresh inputs from india is reduced ( because of immigration laws and raising prosperity back home), how long can ‘indians in u s a’ remain an effective group? i feel that they will dissolve in next 20 years.

Nivedita: That is such an interesting take! I agree actually. Indians are pretty much white adjacent and are intermarrying with whites, so in all probability what you predict might actually happen.

That’s a sharp observation, and worth expanding. The truth is, in the West, all immigrants eventually become “white”—not in phenotype, but in assimilation, in aesthetic, in aspiration. Continue reading Everyone Western Becomes White Eventually

Is It Indian Culture or Hindu (Brahmin) Culture that creates excellence?

June 1, 2025June 1, 2025X.T.MAmerica, Blog, Civilisation, Culture, India, Pakistan, Race, Religion, X.T.MBangladesh, Brown Pundits, civilizational ethos, cultural inheritance, diaspora dynamics, Faizan Zaki, Hindu culture, Indian Americans, Indian Muslims, minority excellence, Pakistan, Spelling Bee71 Comments

On Faizan Zaki, Spelling Bees, and Civilizational Osmosis

Another year, another Spelling Bee crown for an Indian American. But this one, the 100th Scripps tournament, is different.

Faizan Zaki—young, brilliant, and by name Muslim—just became the latest in a long line of Indian-origin champions of America’s most idiosyncratic intellectual ritual. Faizan is the 32nd Indian American to win—meaning they’ve claimed 32 out of the last 40 Spelling Bees. But he is very likely the first Muslim American to do so.

Which raises an old but essential question: Continue reading Is It Indian Culture or Hindu (Brahmin) Culture that creates excellence?