Indian immigrants make it obvious that the American dream is alive and well

Washington Post ^ | 08/25/2015 | Vivek Wadhwa

[Kid Shelleen]

They have funny accents, wear strange outfits, eat really spicy food and some wear turbans. Indian-Americans constitute less than 1 percent of the U.S. population. Yet you will find them at the helm of great companies such as PepsiCo and MasterCard; as presidents and deans of America’s most prestigious colleges; at the pinnacles of journalism; dominating fields such as technology, scientific research and medicine; --snip-- First, you need to understand the background of this group; it is highly educated and entrepreneurial. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 76 percent of Indian immigrants aged 25 or more have a bachelor’s or higher degree, and the vast majority are proficient at English.

[WMarshal]

“They code like crap.”

I second that! I have had to clean up a lot of messes. The need for ever faster processors and memory has been driven by $hit Indian code. There are a lot of good Indian programmers but American companies trying to drive down costs are not paying for or getting the best by-and-large.

Also Indians in America, like all expats, band together and promote their own. That is why some of them have climbed so fast. I was contacting at Microsoft back in 2004 and I remember telling some MS management crowing about how great insourcing Indians was and I responded that they are not just taking programming jobs and that pretty soon they would be replacing executives since they were already replacing middle management. Now Microsoft has an Indian CEO - Prophetic!

[posterchild]

If they don’t need us then why do they come?

[minnesota_bound]

#5 they took the road to socialism.

FTA: nearly 16 percent of the start-ups in Silicon Valley had an Indian founder. The secret of their success lay in learning and mastering the Valley’s rules of engagement: networking, exchanging ideas, and mentoring.

Instead of the whining you hear from the democrat party members who are all red in their thinking.

[vladimir998]

“If they don’t need us then why do they come?”

Your question makes no sense. You’re suggesting Indians coming to America must mean India should need Americans to go to India. The two ideas are unrelated. We “need” cheap Mexican laborers. Mexico does not need lazy, expensive American workers. What part of that do you not understand?

[Resolute Conservative]

Diversity works to the detriment of America implemented as it is. We do not need unlimited number of people, we need a very few select people that have skills and want to ASSIMILATE and NOT CHANGE us!

[Kid Shelleen]

>> Diversity works to the detriment of America implemented as it is <<

Leftists say that diversity creates excellence but diversity was really a hoax for leftists to infiltrate American institutions. That is why we have a community organizer for president.
A culture of freedom and excellence will be diverse.

[haroldeveryman]

My brother worked for an Engineering-Construction company in New York. The guy at the desk next to him kept a scrap book concerning Indian employees. One of them was Ghandi standing on top of a box Car haranguing a throng of untouchables that extended over the horizon. The inscription read “Stone and Webster’s annual picnic at Sunken Meadow State Park”.

[posterchild]

My point was that if Indians have such a great entrepreneurial spirit, are better educated, and less lazy than people in the US then they should be the ones with the thriving tech industry and the US would be full of people wanting to go there.

[Night Hides Not]

They drive like crap too. They're taking over my 'burb, Valley Ranch. The vast majority try to assimilate, especially the boys: they've learned quickly the young ladies dig football players. Lol

I'm getting better at pronouncing 4-6 syllable first names, and look forward to selling my house to a multigenerational Indian family for market plus 5-15%, in 2-3 years. And I will get my price, because the area is virtually built out.