Posted on 06/22/2012 9:04:03 PM PDT by MBT ARJUN
Many of the Indian-Americans (and also Indians in Canada, Australia, etc) are Christians...
A variety of reasons -- mostly incompetent governance, but the main root cause is that India is technically not a country, but a continent with myriad different groups. In many ways it's like a larger version of the European Union with the added effect of different races (95% Caucasian + 5% Mongoloid --> and of the 95% Caucasian, 3/4ths are Indo-European and 1/4th are Dravidian)
Some parts of the country like Kerala have 100% literacy while others like Bihar have only 70%. Some places have high-tech industries while others like the Jarawas live in the stone-ages on the Andaman islands.
People can freely move from one place to another and so it's not that easy to make one area alone, rich
However, as a whole, the country is progressing, slowly.
Also, note that they were socialist for 40 years after independence and are not completely market-oriented yet, which is another drag on their economy
It’s the casinos
In agreement with your post.
Many of the good ones left or want to leave India. Higher learning brainwashing and professions like professors and scientific employment in government research has some effect in their leanings here too. They are not lock stock on the democrat plantation though. They’ve never been a people to live on the “dole” from what I see.
Jindal might be a decent choice to turn the tide in their leaning.
All this from running a crappy 7-11 on the corner....?
And their children win the National Spelling Bee every year. Think of what our schools would be if they were solely populated by Indian children!
Unfortunately, American children are falling far behind not only academically, but in terms of civilized behavior. That is the fault of parents who have let our crass culture ravage their offspring.
I believe it. Look at Elizabeth Warren. She’s a Harvard professor and a candidate for the US Senate.
Their religion makes them very insular. Uniquely Indian.
This is because the majority of their marriages are arranged while the children are still young. Sometimes they marry outside of this, but most often it still is arranged. While this seems out of date to us, in a company I worked for I did notice that the majority of Americans were divorced, while the Indians had stong families and seemed perfectly happy.
By the standards of racial classification, Asian Indians are Caucasians. Many Asian Indians are darker than many African Americans in skin color. Which merely illustrates the idiocy of all so-called "racial" classifications.
The development of India and China is one of the reasons the global economy boomed in the last thirty-forty years. Think about it. Up to about 1980, both countries, with about one-third the world's population, were mired in socialist economies preventing appreciable contributions to the world economy except in exports of raw materials. Then both plunged headlong into the free-market/capitalist system (to a certain degree) which has allowed both countries to gain substantial footholds or primacy in the global wealth race.
In fact, many experts expect China to overtake the U.S. before too long. That's in part because many Americans want to plunge America into a socialist paradigm which the two previously socialist countries have mostly succeeded in escaping. Which allowed sizable percentages of their people to live lives undreamt of by their previous generations. Life sure is strange.
The "/s" tag slipped right by you. By the way Captain Obvious, when do you get promoted to Major?
This is almost certainly not an accurate comparison.
You are comparing outdated demographic information - that is at least 8 years old - about American Jews, to up-to-date demographic information about Asian-Indians living in America.
The link you provided takes one to a webpage of the Jewish Federations of North America. That is certainly a reliable, authoritative source, but the actual data referred to on that webpage is found on a link therein, which in turn takes one to a pdf document in the form of a study entitled "THE NATIONAL JEWISH POPULATION SURVEY 2000-01, STRENGTH, CHALLENGE AND DIVERSITY IN THE AMERICAN JEWISH POPULATION". On the bottom of the title page of the linked pdf document ones finds "Updated January 2004 see downloadable Errata for corrections from original edition".
Thus, the data you cite regarding Jewish demographics is at least 8 years old.
In contrast, the newspaper article regarding Asian-Indians that is the basis for this thread ( 'Indian Americans ahead of all other ethnic minorities in US,' Hindustan Times, June 23, 2012" ) refers to a new study by the Pew Research Center "released on Tuesday" (i.e., June 19, 2012) which "uses existing data and new survey".
Excellent and true.
I wonder if the arranged marriage is simply a symptom if you will of the cause - parents that plan/coach their children into adulthood. There’s a term for this type of parent that escapes me at the moment, but parents who practice this approach with their children get very good results and close families.
The children grow up feeling that their parents are loving counselors. The level of involvement in schooling and life choices is very high. Compare this to single mother households. Many Indian wives are not particularly well educated and not near as much, but they are practitioners of this kind of child rearing.
Perhaps it could be called traditional families?
Good post.
“if Indians value hard work and education so much then why is India a 3rd world cesspool?”
Most of the Indian immigrants who come here are from families which have money and status, not the underclass.
When considering the behavior of Indians, or anyone in the developing world, we have to look at their circumstances and how they grew up. As the article says, Indians in America are tremendously successful, because they are especially driven to succeed.
This generation of Indians is only one generation out of crippling poverty. In India, if you fall, you fall much farther down than in the US. Every Indian, no matter how successful in the US, still in the back of their minds is walking on a tightrope, where falling means living in a shantytown back in India. Indians do not have the luxury of getting married and then getting divorced because they were too young and just weren't ready and go off to find themselves in a commune somewhere. That idea is so alien to an Indian that Americans might as well have come from a different planet, with antennae coming out of their heads. Indians get married to share expenses, pool incomes and lower the risk of unemployment, and raise children.
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