Indian names aren't relegated to just what YOU have heard of lol.
On top of that, plenty of Indians go by day to day names that aren't their full formal government name. So even if we're talking about the shortened form, it's still their name. Unless you want to argue that John (aka Jonathan) isn't "really a full first name".
Four out of the six congresspeople of Indian origin go by a shortened form of their name, or by their middle name. Ro Khanna, Ami Bera, Shri Thanedar, Raja Krishnamoorti.
Nikki Haley was literally given that name at birth by her INDIAN parents. I have an INDIAN cousin named Niki. Ive met other INDIAN women that go by Nikki/Niki.
So? Do non-WASPs have to have spicy names just for your pleasure?
Famous presidents have gone by their middle names...I don't see anyone getting on a high horse about Thomas Woodrow Wilson or David Dwight Eisenhower.
Nikki Haley has been going by that since she was a child, well before she was a spineless conservative. Why does she have to change how shes addressed to fit your narrative that she hides her indian identity?
4, out of 6, congresspeople of Indian origin use shortened forms of names or middle names. Is that also them selling out to have broader mass appeal?
And even if this thread was right about why she goes by that name, why are you angry at a brown woman for being forced to "change" her name so racists don't abort her career?
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