If its a question of love then Mr Azmi could just utter 4 lines in marathi as a token of love for the state that he is livin in, for the oath taking ceremony and we would be done. What this agitation against the Bihari's by the MNS gets to, is the mass migration of the Bihari's in to Mumbai and their politicization around an UP/Bihari identity.
America was never centred around the english language, there are however certain precepts that the americans do hold dearly, and these do get tested in the event of application for american citizenships. Indian states are fashioned around linguistic identities. It is not the right to work that is the problem, it is politicization of the Bihari's in mumbai around a non-marathi identity that is the problem.
Also as I have stressed, lumpenization of the jobless marathi dalit/obc/maratha youth that is the real source of the conflict. They see themselves at the non-receival of the fruits of a supposedly booming mumbai, the fruits of which reach only a chosen few. And this anger, frustation and a feelin of hopelessness gets chaneled by the likes of a raj thackeray in to responses that diverge from non-violent means of expressing of grievances.
You have similar issues in poor countries like russia, where white power movements are the norm. These issues shouldnt really be judged against the ethos of a middle class looking glass, because it causes one to really isolate oneself from the actual source of the problem.
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