However Mehta is unwittingly a victim of the truth-ignoring culture within which he lives (New York, USA) – for all its rare and admirable truth telling that will probably shock most Western readers, “This Land is Our Land” does not go far enough e.g. Indeed the Stupidity, Ignorance and Egregious Greed (SIEG as in “Sieg heil”) of the global army of deplorable Trumpists and the rich One Percenters manipulating them is a massive threat to humanity. Critically, Mehta describes the surge of irrational, anti-science, racist, anti-immigrant, Trumpist populism in America, Britain, Europe and US lackey Australia as “the alliance between the mob and capital” as exampled by 20th century fascism. This important book should be in every national, city, town, suburban, university and school library for it is only through revelations about these appalling realities, including acute climate change threats, that there is any hope for humane treatment of our fellow human beings. An Immigrant’s Manifesto” is a passionately argued and well-documented polemic about the appalling maltreatment by the rich and exploitative North of refugee “creditors” from the ravaged and impoverished South.
Mehta argues cogently that the colonizers have run up an immense debt that must be met by their descendants, describes the present appalling treatment of migrants by US and European Trumpists, excoriates the neo-fascist Trumpist alliance between the mob and capital, and concludes with a passionate defence of multiculturalism. An Immigrant’s Manifesto” by Gujarati Indian American author Suketu Mehta is an important argument for the right of immigrants (creditors) to migrate from the impoverished Developing World to today’s wealthy countries of the former brutal colonizers (debtors). Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on Email
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