Indian nationals are the smartest people I have ever worked with.
Genetically brilliant.
Is that racist?
where’s all my EYEtalians
Smart yes, but not smarter than whites, Asians or Jews.
The country has 1.3 billion people, and only the top 1 or 2 percent get to come to America. So we tend to see only the best of the best.
MOST of my classmates in junior year were either Sikh or Punjabi. You’re correct: very committed to anything they put their minds to. I even learned day stock trading with one of my classmates when I went to his house.
Very capitalistic creatures and amiable, nothing bad to say in general EXCEPT maybe..the only thing that made me cringe was the overwhelming smell of curry.
Rote memorization is not a sign of intelligence.
Its a sign they have no childhood...
It reminds me of a Japanese kid I knew.
“Genetically brilliant.”
I do not know where you learned this, “Genetically brilliant” but I beg to disagree:
I have heard the same thing about Chinese people. That is also untrue.
The fact of the matter is that both East Indians AND Chinese people are taught, from birth, to work hard above all else. In other words, their work ethic sets them apart from others and NOT because they are intellectually superior to other races, creeds, ethnicities, etc.