Posted on 02/23/2006 8:38:49 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
New Delhi: The Indian diaspora is today the third largest Asian community in the US, is upwardly mobile and is on its way to becoming a political force in that country.
Cherian Samuel, a scholar at the Institute of Defence Studies and Anlyses (IDSA), made the observation here during a seminar Thursday on Indo-US relations, organised ahead of George W. Bush's visit.
Samuel said Indian Americans totalled about 1.7 million in the US according to the 2000 census, their numbers having gone up by an incredible 106 percent since 1990. It grew at a rate of 7.6 percent annually in the last 10 years.
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"Indian Americans - a growing force in the US"
Many have reservations?
As a IT professional, I work with a lot of recent Indian immigrants. I couldnt agree more with you statement about Indians. Without exception, Ive found them to be hard working, professional, polite and smart.
The Indian family that moved in next door to the house where I grew up is a perfect example. The father owns a Kwik-E-Mart. His two daughters have gone on to do well in college. Last I heard, his oldest daughter was in graduate school for biology or something like that.
The trend is South Asian male-Caucasian female, which inverts the trend for East Asian-Caucasian marriages. A friend of a relative wrote a hybrid "Hinjew" ceremony which they have spread far and wide, and all the couples were Jewish woman, Hindu man.
I would guess that South Asian men far outnumber women among immigrants in their 20s and 30s. The American-born population/children still have far to go to become a major share of the community.
I must say, it often produces amazing results...like this one:
One of eight sisters, Katrina was born to an Indian father and an English mother.
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