Well, to a large degree, if we are talking Indian characteristics, there is a lot there I agree with. I have worked with a lot of Indians in the medical/IT field, and one of the most professionally brilliant, hardworking, congenial, considerate, and down to earth people I have ever worked with is a SQL engineer who REALLY knows his stuff. I admire him greatly.
But I also know some Indians who simply don’t know their stuff, are lazy, and hard to work with.
Overall...the same can be said of nearly any race or sex, professionally speaking.
I do feel that, in most Indians (not all) there is an unbridgeable cultural gap of varying size, and I admit, I don’t like that. I have always admired Dinesh D’Souza, because from afar, I do not sense that gap at all.
In someone like Dinesh D’Souza, I feel emotionally in listening to him whenever I have heard him speak extemporaneously, that he is a fully acclimated...American. I don’t get that from all Indians. I feel that many of them have two separate masks they put on, and that places distance between us as Americans, in which I get the impression, is fully acceptable and desirable to them.
I also have the gut feeling that in the IT world, Indians are biased towards Indian subordinates/colleagues and will hire them preferentially. This doesn’t seem as much of an issue in the medical side, but they are mostly physicians and not in a hiring capacity, if that makes sense.
All that said, most Indians I have known, both immigrated and native born as Americans, have a fine sense of humor once you know them and can be, on a personal level, quite congenial.
Hey, rlmorel
Great to read your observations. I suppose we’ve gone as far as we can go. After all, our experiences are of relatively few people.
I also dearly admire Dinesh D’Souza. And agree with you that he seems to transcend his Indian heritage somewhat and speaks with an international tone and has intelligent authority.
Dinesh is not exactly what you think ....trust me
I’ve worked with Indians on real estate deals
Overall negative
Untrustworthy and opportunistic
I’ve seen some walk away from dent load and leave USA bound partners and return home to India
Personally I find them often a bit arrogant and haughty
And their women not too pretty as a rule
However there are exceptions and I’ve known them too
Cool dependable and affable and my middle son dated a gorgeous and I mean super gorgeous Indian girl in high school...her pic is on my homepage
And she was a peach...half southern though..her mom had been an Alabama cheerleader
By and large not my favorites and it seems these Indian tech guys running Silicon Valley are anti American and anti white
Pass
So then, Indian people aren’t much different from people in general?
(I think some posters here have some ‘issues’ with regard to their personal fields.)
I’ve spoken on this thread to my own experience with Indian people who are mostly in the bioengineering field. They’ve all been excellent professionals.