If the Democratic candidate is elected President of the United States on November 5, she would be the first woman of Asian and African descent to accede to the supreme post. A new challenge for this brilliant, combative personality who has already succeeded in breaking the glass ceiling on several occasions, and who is preparing to engage in a heated debate with Donald Trump this Wednesday…
America, Asia, Africa: these three continents have forged the personality of the Democratic candidate for President of the United States.
Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, to two remarkable people, her father from Jamaica and her mother from India. The former, of Jamaican origin, is an economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, while the latter is a biologist and oncologist specializing in breast cancer. Both met in the United States, where they had come to pursue their studies, before setting up home.
But when their parents separated, seven-year-old Kamalaand her sister Maya followed their mother to Canada in 1976.
After attending primary school (in a French-speaking school in Montreal) and then secondary school in Westmount (Quebec), Kamala Harris returned to the USA in 1981 to pursue her higher education. She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and went on to earn a Juris Doctor degree from the Hastings School of Law at the University of California, San Francisco.
A beautiful founding journey
In her early years, Kamala Harris was also strongly influenced by her maternal grandfather. Thanks to her grandfather, an emissary of the Indian government in Zambia, she discovered the African continent. A knowledge enriched by vacations with her Jamaican family. Stays in India with her mother’s relatives completed her cosmopolitan education.
This beautiful founding itinerary enabled Kamala to discover the world through different cultures, as well as the United States, from the East to the West Coast.
What many consider to be an asset, however, was sharply criticized during Donald Trump‘s 2020 presidential campaign . After highlighting her Indian and Jamaican origins, the Republican candidate for re-election declared that “ Kamala Harris could never become the first woman president, it would be an insult to our country”.
But that’s not enough to discourage the woman who intends to become the first second-generation American to reach the White House.
As a reminder, second-generation Americans – children born in the United States to two foreign parents– represent 12% of the country’s population.
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