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Bhutan, the USA, and the Bhutanese Refugees

Today, more than 80,000 Americans are Bhutan-born. It took about three decades and billions of dollars in the process to move them from Bhutan to America (the USA and Canada). The Bhutanese people (now Bhutan-born Americans) of Gorkha extraction and Buddhism accommodative Hindus were adherent royalists. These people were politically marginalised in Bhutan by Drukpa rulers for more than a century. They were deprived of a global outlook of the world perspective and were kept away from political institutionalisation. They needed education on global economics, politics, diplomacy, and market. They needed wider exposure to global political orientation and behaviour. Before they could claim their political rights, they were segmented, categorised, antagonised, and evicted from Bhutan. The situation turned beyond their control.

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