Trumpism: Mantra for the new world order?

Donald Trump, the newly elected President of United States of America (USA) came from nowhere to everywhere.  In the fiercely fought battle for the White House, he defeated veteran democrat and charismatic Hillary Clinton. Despite managing the White House for 8 years as the first lady and occupying the prestigious secretary of state post, Hillary lost to Trump - a political administrative novice. This is still a mystery to many. But those who watched the election closely know well that Trump is going to create long waves in the world politics. Exactly it happened. Not only Trump won the US Presidential election but he became the mantra for the new world order. Trumpism is all about anti-immigrantism. Trumpism is all about giving jobs to locals alone. Trumpism is all about capturing the world imagination about America – the great.

 Apart from an anti-immigrant attitude, “country first”, “local manufacturing”, “employment to local people” are going to be the hot issues in the world. Trump has set the world stage on these issues. After his victory using these issues, leaders from other nations won’t rest on the customary themes of electioneering.  Safe drinking water, electricity, transportation and other day-to-day issues will take the back seat. Macro issues like immigrant population, global terrorism, climate change and denial of employment to other nationalities will come to the forefront.

Foreign policies, economic development, financial management, capitalizing human resources, America First, ban on immigrants from some countries, women’s status, climate change, wall in the Mexican border, Russian relations and many more issues have put Donald Trump in the spotlight. Whether this spotlight is for good or bad needs to be analysed.

Trump talks to family friends, media, heads of foreign nations, diplomats, public representatives and strangers in the same manner. Is this frankness or peculiar personality trait to win every deal? In whichever way one look at it, Trump’s nature has triumphed in every field he entered. Be it real estate business, or owning Miss.World and Miss.Universe pageants or running gold courses or managing sports teams or winning the US presidential election. Trump has become a challenge to the personality analyzing psychologists.

Trump has shifted his position on several crucial issues many. According to NBC News, Trump made “141 distinct shifts on 23 major issues”. His political affiliations and party orientation too changed over the years. From a Republican to Reformists to Democrat to finally Republican winning the presidential contests is not a silly joke. It needs La Donald Trump to do this trickiest job,

Take some of the shocking and surprising acts of Donald Trump.

1.      On 31 August 2016 morning, Trump blasts Mexico for flooding USA with migrants and vow to build a border wall. In the evening he reaches Mexico to address a joint press conference with the Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto

2.      Both of them look cool. Was it a carefully crafted strategy to satisfy the Americans and Mexicans?

3.      Definitely this has changed the minds of many Mexicans and made them to vote for Trump

4.      In July 2016, Trump promises to throw out the I.T workers from India once he gets elected and promises to give that jobs to Americans

5.      When the election approached, Trump changed his stance towards the Indians, sensing their relevance in his electoral victory

6.      In a dramatic statement on 16 October 2016, a few weeks before his election, Trump said “I am a big fan of Hindus and a I am a big front of India”

7.      These kinds of contradictory statements and very powerful messages against the terrorists coming from Islamic countries, jobs for the natural Americans, massive income tax cuts for Americans clicked Trump with the voters

In short, Trump is the new icon for the locals who are threatened by the power of immigrants. Europe, Australia, Canada, Mexico, the Wealthy Asian and African country politicians will take Trump’s mantra of anti-immigrantism to win the elections.  There will be a resurgence of Right Wing politics across the world.  

The Global Presence of Indians

Indians are more enterprising and successful when they go to other countries. This was old story. Today the same people are turning India upside down and making it a happening place. But the wealth from abroad and success quotient is a strong inspiration. From the entrance to exit most of the developed countries boosts Indians. They are energetic, enterprising and quick. Whether London or Lisbon or Washington or Warsaw, there is no shortage for Indians.

The Times of India writes (9 october 2009)

This may well be the ultimate ode to the globetrotting Indian who, for centuries, has been criss-crossing the world in search of
opportunity and adventure — Indian citizens are today permanent residents of all but three countries in the world.

The ministry of overseas Indian affairs has registered the presence of Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) in 180 of 183 countries of the world. The numbers may vary from just two in Lebanon to almost a million in the United States of America but the fact is that Indians call the whole world their home. It is only in North Korea, Pakistan and Bhutan that not a single NRI is to be found.

NRIs are Indians, who like steel tycoon Laxmi Mittal, proudly hold on to their blue Indian passports while living in another country. They are also different from ordinary Indian citizens who obtain visas and go abroad to work or study for a limited period of time. NRIs remain citizens of India but enjoy the right to live and work permanently in another country of their choice.

Indians can now be found in the remotest corners of the Earth. Go to the Republic of Palau, a speck of an island nation in the Pacific Ocean which is one of the world’s youngest sovereign states, and you will find five NRIs there. And don’t be surprised to find 20 of them living in the mountains of Bolivia or a 375-strong Indian community living in tiny Djibouti on the Horn of Africa.

Historically, Indian communities have had a major presence in several parts of the world. Be it Gujarati merchants who settled in East Africa, Tamil Chettiars who lived in south-east Asia or indentured labourers taken from Bihar to work on plantations in the West Indies, Indians have been migrating to other countries for centuries. During the two World Wars, they fought for the British army and settled down in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. The NRIs were a post-independence addition to this long list of migrants.

But it is also true that, historically, the NRI’s favoured destinations have been First World countries or West Asia, where employment opportunities abound. But the latest data confirm that in a globalized world, NRIs are making opportunities in literally every corner of the Earth.

The largest number of NRIs are in Saudi Arabia (17 lakh) followed by the United Arab Emirates (14 lakh) and the US (9 lakh) but what is more fascinating is they can also be found — albeit in minuscule numbers — in Slovenia (10), Montserrat (10), Iceland (21), Bosnia and Herzegovina (30) and Burkina Faso (150).

Experts also point out that, if People of Indian Origin (PIOs) — a term for citizens of other countries who have an Indian ancestry — are included, then both Pakistan and Bhutan would also find it difficult to shake off the Indian links to their populations.