“Where are you really from?” is a question that Jhumpa Lahiri gets asked “all the time”.
The rise of Donald Trump, growing support for the rightwing populist party Lega in Italy, and Narendra Modi’s “notion of what India is” are all examples of an “increasingly nationalist sentiment” that comes from “ “believing that you have some sort of non-negotiable right to belong to a place”, Lahiri said. “I don’t believe that.”
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The rise of Donald Trump, growing support for the rightwing populist party Lega in Italy, and Narendra Modi’s “notion of what India is” are all examples of an “increasingly nationalist sentiment” that comes from “ “believing that you have some sort of non-negotiable right to belong to a place”, Lahiri said. “I don’t believe that.”
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