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Republican Congress member Brandon criticized Mamdani generation to eat with his hands and asked him to “return to the third world.”
The mayor’s candidate in New York Zahran Mamdani. (Reuters)
A video of Zahran Mamdani sparked an angry discussion with the rice, as the Republican Senator praised him for being “not civilized” and asking him to “return to the third world”.
In the video, Mamdani – who recently defeated Andrew Como was seen in the race to become the mayor of New York – a traditional meal of rice and lentils with his hands, a common practice in India, while he was talking about the Palestinian conflict.
“When you grow up as a person, especially in the third world, you have a completely different understanding of the Palestinian struggle,” he heard in the video.
Republican Congress member Brandon generated a generation of the video using a harsh language, commenting on Mamdani’s ability to adapt to the Western world. He said at x.
Do not eat people in America like this. If you refuse to adopt Western customs, then return to the third world. https://t.co/tyqkcr0nfe
– Congress member Brandon Jill (Repbrandongill) June 30, 2025
The response of the generation of a polarized response, as many people criticized his statements. “Are you being insulted by people who use eating sticks in an Asian restaurant?” An individual answered.
“How do you eat taco sandwiches, fried potatoes, burgers, etc. Do you eat with the fork too?” Another user hung. A third person wrote, “You cannot really criticize his policies until you resort to personal attacks on his culture.”
The Internet user also highlighted that the wife of a generation was an Indian hanging, Daniel de Souza. The twenty -sixth Texas County generation of Congress and has two children – Marigold Winston.
However, other Internet users accused him of confirming his cultural identity. One of the users shared an old picture of Mamdani using a knife and a fork, saying: “It is funny that Zahran clearly use the table tools to eat all the time (even the borito on the subway), but he eats his hands on the camera as if it was a costume for white people to find it strange.”
Mamdani, 33, the son of the famous Indian director Mira Nair, did his history by becoming the first Muslim candidate for Democrats in the Mayor of New York City, after former ruler Andrew Como approved.
However, Mamdani faced intense scrutiny and gathered his socialist policies and threats for immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) and the police, with US President Donald Trump joining other Republicans in describing him as “Lunature 100 %”.
The Republican actor in Tennessee, Andy Euges, sparked anger this week by publicly describing Mamdani “Little Mohamed” and demanding that it be “deportation”.

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