Following Bobby Jindal’s Tuesday announcement that he is seeking the presidency in 2016, the Louisiana governor received heat from several mainstream media sources. Some have argued that Jindal is not a real Indian-American because, in their view, he deemphasizes his ethnicity. NBC News continued this trend in an article on their website which suggested that many Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans are skeptical of 
Jindal because he doesn't focus on his "Indian heritage."
The author of the piece, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, argued that Asians and Indians reacted with “jokes, embarrassment, critique, and for a few, pride.” Wang asserted that to many within that community, “the historic moment won’t really resonate.”
Wang said there was ambivalence on the part of Indian-Americans “because of the way he’s distanced himself from his Indian heritage.” She added:
Jindal has insisted several times that he is not a hyphenated "Indian-American," he is just an American, and that if his parents had wanted to raise Indians or Indian Americans, they would have stayed in India.
The choice by Jindal to identify as an American first, as opposed to focusing on his ethnic heritage, appears to be a problem for this NBC News writer. Wang also noted and displayed tweets making fun of the Louisiana governor, including one which described Jindal as “anti-immigrant.”
This is the latest attack on Jindal for being – in the minds of some people – insufficiently Indian. The Washington Post hit Jindal by declaring that “there’s not much Indian left” in the Louisiana governor.
