Are they in engineering?
Point would be, it is a field where cunning and people smarts do not get you very far. Do not even get you through the first year of an engineering degree.
People make fun of engineers for a reason, our minds do work a bit different, and few can do what we do. Asians and Indians are superb at it, possibly a genetic quirk that way.
No it is the culture.
In India engineering is more valued by the culture than medicine and business people, lawyers are at the bottom of the professions.
In China engineering is so valued that engineering schools turned out 1.5M engineers last year. The problem is they have so watered down the curriculum that most of these new graduates could not find their behinds with a map and a flashlight. They are next to worthless.
In Mexico engineers are men of learning and highly revered. The common folk think doctors are witch doctors, businessmen are con-artists and lawyers are thieves.
This is the tax accounting department - so technical with an ever changing set of rules.
My family has several engineering - unfortunately for me I’m not one. Never would have been able to handle that math.