Nikki Haley, the first and only Indian-American to attain the status of a member of the US cabinet has shared a piece of advice from her mother that propelled the child of Sikh immigrants to the high office: \u201cYour job is not to show them how you\u2019re different. Your job is to show them how you\u2019re similar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But when she got home, her mother\u2019s advice was to stress to positives of her being an American.Overcoming all odds, she became the Governor of her state in the southern part of the US, where there was deep-rooted racism, and went on to the cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She achieved these as a member of the Republican Party that is often criticised as being conservative and hostile to non-Whites, women and immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of her acts as Governor was to remove a racist symbol from the state\u2019s legislative complex the flag of the American Confederacy, the group of southern states that rebelled against the abolition of slavery and fought the civil war to retain it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The difference between the attitude ingrained by her Sikh family and that of some others of immigrant background surfaced when she was asked by the interviewer for her reaction to President Donald Trump telling four Congresswomen, who were immigrants or children of immigrants and critical of the US, to \u201cgo back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While conceding the President\u2019s taunt was inappropriate, Haley said: \u201cBut I also can appreciate where he was coming from, from the standpoint of, don\u2019t bash America over and over and over again and not do something to try and fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Growing up in the South as Nimrata Nikki Randhwa, she told the CBS interviewer about her encounter with racism. \u201cWe weren\u2019t white enough to be white, we weren\u2019t black enough to be black. We were the only Indian family . My father wore a turban, he still does to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In her book, \u201cCan\u2019t Is Not an Option\u201d published in 2012, she recounted that when she tried as a five-year-old to enter the segregated town\u2019s Miss Bamberger contests, she was turned away from the white section as not white and from the black section as not black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is known as a tough leader who fought to get what she wanted and it shone through her tenures as a state legislator, Governor and Permanent Representative at the UN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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