The business advisor Donald Trump, Peter Navarro, triggered a series this week when he said that the “brahmins” benefited from Russian oil with India.
Navarro claimed that Indian refiners were buying cheap Russian raw, processing it, and then selling it abroad for a bonus, and even stating that “India is nothing but a laundry for the Kremlin.”
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“And what do we have to do as taxpayers? We have to send them more money. You have Brahmins to profit at the expense of the Indian people. We have to stop it,” Trump’s assistant said in an interview with Fox News.
The notes were mostly criticized in India, many of which marked the “caste” angle in the comments. Navarro’s note “Brahmin” also released the MEME Fest on the social media. Some, however, suggested that they do not apply to Indian brahimins, but what many of us call “Boston Brahmins”.
Puri’s criticism
Officially, India replied to her criticism, when Minister Union Oil Hardeep Singh Puri claimed that the new Delhi had not violated any rule. Puri killed the Navarro “Laundromat” note and said that the Russian oil purchase of a new Delhi, because the Ukrainian war helped stabilize global markets and keep prices under control.
“Some critics say India has become” laundry “for Russian oil. Nothing could be further from the truth,” he wrote in an article for Hindunsunewspaper without named Navarro.
The brahmins are at the top of the pyramid in the Indian context. However, they are not traditionally a business class in India.
However, “Brahmins” is a common term referring to rich business families in the US. The Boston rich elite was once called “Boston Brahmins”. That’s exactly that
Who are Boston Brahmins?
Before the commentary of Navarra, the term “Boston Brahmins” was also discussed during an episode including the astronomer’s head of HR Kristina Cabot, who was seen in July this year with the CEO of Andy Byron at Coldplay.
Kristin is married to Andrew Cabot, the owner of a private rum, and a strength of the prestigious Cabot family, one of the oldest and richest families of Boston Brahmin in America.
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“Boston Brahmins” is a term used to refer to a small influential group of rich families in Boston in Massachusetts, United States.
The term is used for the Anglo -Saxon elite in New England from Puritan settlers. The influence of the community came from wealth, education and social status and was often considered to be the “aristocracy” of the United States in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
While “Boston Brahmins” were rich, they were also known for the founding of important educational institutions. One of the most famous institutions founded by Boston Brahmins is Harvard. The Boston Latin school, the first high school in the US, was also founded by Boston Brahmins.
Origin “Boston Brahmins”
Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes s. He popularized the phrase in the 60s of the 20th century. In the novel Elsie Vennerová Holmes, she called the Boston Elite Family “Brahmin Caste of New England”. Holmes borrowed “Brahmin” from the highest Indian caste, which meant improvement, privilege and authority. Holmes s. He was an American doctor, poet and Polymath based in Boston.
In short, “Boston Brahmins” were the American version of the hereditary elite – a small, powerful circle of families, which is said to have formed cultural, political and intellectual life of New England for centuries.
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The influence of the community was rooted in old money, Ivy League education, Protestant values and institutions.
A prominent Boston family
The prominent families “Boston Brahmin” included Lowells, Cabots, Lodges, Adamses and Winthrops.
The prominent Boston Brahmins include former American presidents John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams, Franklin Roosevelt and the poet TS Eliot.
In the mid -20th century immigration, social mobility and changing policy disrupted the dominance of “Boston Brahmins”.
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