{"id":2026,"date":"2026-04-06T04:47:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/losing-texas-values-maga-frets-over-american-culture-as-video-of-bollywood-dance-at-texas-high-school-goes-viral-world-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:17:38","slug":"losing-texas-values-maga-frets-over-american-culture-as-video-of-bollywood-dance-at-texas-high-school-goes-viral-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/losing-texas-values-maga-frets-over-american-culture-as-video-of-bollywood-dance-at-texas-high-school-goes-viral-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Losing Texas values&#8217;: MAGA frets over American culture as video of Bollywood dance at Texas high school goes viral | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-129921681,imgsize-101812,width-400,resizemode-4\/129921681.jpg\" alt=\"'Losing Texas values': MAGA frets over American culture as video of Bollywood dance at Texas high school goes viral\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Texas landscape has become a boiling pot of anti-immigration sentiment fuelled by the fire of an alleged &#8216;takeover&#8217; and &#8216;invasion&#8217; by the Indian-American community. A recent video of a celebration in a school in Texas has taken the internet by storm, spiralling the MAGA minds with worry over the loss of their culture.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>&#8216;Trinity High School in Euless, Texas recently held a Bollywood dance. Homecoming is a longstanding tradition at many Texas high schools,&#8217; captioned a post on X (formerly Twitter), highlighting how the American homecoming was a traditional day for students and involved cultural dances from the land. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>In the clip students from the high school could be seen donning traditional Indian attires of lehenga choli and kurtas while performing to a song from a Bollywood movie starring actor <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shah-rukh-khan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Shah Rukh Khan<\/a>. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Many on the internet raged about immigration and called for the deportation of the Indian-American community due to the spread of their culture in the country. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>&#8220;Why are these people in Texas instead of India? Like I know that you are sort of shaped similarly so maybe there\u2019s some confusion but this is just getting so ridiculous. Like it\u2019s one thing to allow exchange programs where you have a few foreign students, but to create massive groups of them to the point that they started eclipsing your own civilisation,&#8221; wrote one user on X. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>&#8220;They should be denaturalised and deported for not assimilating,&#8221; called another. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>&#8220;Way back in the day, when Texas was still Texas, who could have imagined high school gyms in Texas full of idol worshipping dancing Indians?&#8221; one questioned. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>&#8220;Where are the parents! Losing Texas values,&#8221; slammed one. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>The video was taken in the Trinity High School in Euless, Texas and was of their cultural day celebration in 2025, rather than homecoming. <!-- -->The school is known to celebrate the diversity of its students on the day with cultural performances from across the globe. &#8220;We&#8217;re here to celebrate every culture of every student. We&#8217;re here to share and rejoice and just celebrate how diverse we are and how amazing we are,&#8221; said one of the authorities of the school in a video shared on its YouTube channel.<!-- --> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>&#8220;The best thing about culture day is that I get to celebrate not just my culture but also my friends&#8217; culture,&#8221; said one of the students from the school. <!-- -->Students performed dance from various countries globally on the day, including South Africa, Tonga and India. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/>Many on Reddit pointed out that the school hosted one of the &#8216;most&#8217; diverse collection of students across America. The school&#8217;s football team is known to perform the Haka, a ceremonial dance of the Maori people from New Zealand, before playing. &#8220;I went to Trinity, it is not one of the more diverse high schools in North Texas, it is one of the most diverse high schools in the United States. Nothing else in North Texas frankly comes close&#8221; wrote a Redditor.<!-- --> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"34\"\/>The celebrations throughout the day were diverse and represented numerous other cultures. However, a clip of the Indian dance was circulated online to promote the  anti-Indian rhetoric going viral in America right now. As per a recent report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/networkcontagion.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/From-Policy-Drift-to-Purity-Grift-How-a-Small-Network-Hijacked-the-Immigration-Debate.pdf\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Network Contagion Research Institute<\/a> (NCRI), titled &#8216;How a Small Network Hijacked the Immigration Debate&#8217;, anti-Indian content on X tripled in weekly volume during 2025. Between January and December 2025, the researchers identified more than 24,000 posts which collectively generated over 30 million views. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"39\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"40\"\/>Numerous similar clips have been posted and circulated far and wide in social media forums to promote anti-Indian sentiment in the states and create a hostile environment for the community, as a call for action on the rising demand for their deportation and a ban on H-1B visas.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/us-news-losing-texas-values-maga-frets-over-american-culture-as-video-of-bollywood-dance-at-texas-high-school-goes-viral\/articleshow\/129921681.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas landscape has become a boiling pot of anti-immigration sentiment fuelled by the fire of an alleged &#8216;takeover&#8217; and &#8216;invasion&#8217; by the Indian-American community. A recent video of a celebration in a school in Texas has taken the internet by storm, spiralling the MAGA minds with worry over the loss of their culture.&#8216;Trinity High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}