Asserting that he didn’t believe in hyphenated identities, louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said that his parents came to the US from India four decades ago to become Americans and not Indian-Americans.
He invoked his ethnic heritage to make a call for immigrant assimilation in the multi-cultural American society and said people who talked about skin pigmentation were the “most dim-witted lot” around.
“My parents came in search of the American Dream, and they caught it. To them, America was not so much a place, it was an idea. My dad and mom told my brother and me that we came to America to be Americans. Not Indian-Americans, simply Americans,” Jindal said in a prepared remarks that he is scheduled to deliver next week.