… interesting info. … as always … IF TRUE … I could have missed it … Q: did this person speak to the issue as to what a Brit or an American should expect in terms of behavior from Indian immigrants? This would seem to be a very important point as to how we in the West should deal with Indian Nationals.
I was more reminded of Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Roy Cohn in, “The Apprentice”.
No beating around the bush, as in the article of India.
Though the article does try to get some points across.
Cohn’s performance, gets the points across much better.
The Article specifically addresses what the west can expect from immigration in the last paragraph.
“Most Indians cannot think beyond money, sex, and survival — just what you would expect of a society with an average IQ of 77. Every Western value given to them has been caricatured and corrupted for these ends. Indians have no Ten Commandments. They are so unaware of these values that they remain oblivious even if they are forcefully presented to them. There is nothing you can do about this, except to try to understand what immigration from India and the rest of Third World will do to the West.”
… not what the WEST should expect … but instead what we as individuals should expect from individual Indian nationals and if we should expect, for the most part, them to act as individuals as they would as if they were still in India. In other words should we assume individuals would continue to act with the behaviors he describes. the writer hints at this but never explicitly says that we should be aware of these behavioral tendencies and not expect them to alter their behavior and so should protect ourselves accordingly.
Oh, my bad i misunderstood.
The author speaks directly to this and goes through their own personal change, " In other words should we assume individuals would continue to act with the behaviors he describes." As they were themselves Indian, they over time of living in Britan became better being around a more “moral people.” He also goes on to say that generally immigrants just try to recreate conditions from home where they live now.
I’m not sure if i buy into the British being a more moral people! But, certainly not acting in the way he describes those in India behaving. After all it was the British who exploited the Indians to begin with when they were “making the world England.”
A problem may be found in the Brahmin caste, who come, and stick to themselves and value their caste as if still in India. The view that they are somehow better, especially if and when they enrich themselves, is perhaps exacerbated by the commitments to STEM education with a complete lack of the import of the Humanities. Thus, the “americans”( lower-case lower-caste) with their values become the servants of these Brahmins, and seen as sometime lazy or certainly uncultured… An unpleasant twist on Revenge of the Nerds.
They are myopically fiercely dedicated to coming out on top, with each other.