I tend to have a pro-Indian bias. Everyone I know from India seems so darn smart and well-mannered!
When I ask Indian friends about that, they just laugh and point out that the Indians an American meets in the USA tend to be either very upper class going back generations, or else they’re graduates of the India Institutes of Technology, meaning they’re some of the smartest test-takers in the world. It’s not a random sample.
“Everyone I know from India seems so darn smart and well-mannered!”
That’s probably because everyone you know from India, regardless of their wealth or humble beginnings, are educated and cultured. But India has over a billion people, most of whom are poor, tribal, ignorant and dumb as a bag of hammers. China is very much the same.
Nothing more to add. Just an observation / opinion.