​"Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG," Vivek Ramaswamy said adding for example Cory from Cory from Boy Meets World. Many Americans disagreed with Vivek Ramaswamy and Laura Loomer called out the Indian film industry Bollywood's rape culture.
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