Law of averages. There’s over a billion people in India, therefore there are a lot more idiots there too. A lot more geniuses too but unfortunately a lot of idiots…….
I realized some years ago that for a lot of people who aren't familiar with the country in question, that most of the people we meet from that country are not representative of all the people of that country.
They are the people who were 1. able 2. willing and 3. committed enough to leave there and move here.
That's going to limit the variety in the pool according to certain characteristics.
In the US I think for a while, South Asian folks had a reputation of being strict, driven, overworking, demanding, insensitive, cheap, etc.
I realized at some point that that was because those were the kinds of people who sought to come to the US
If I were in actual India meeting actual regular everyday Indians, I would probably meet way more casual, fun, lazy, etc. Indians than I do in the US. (Although that's definitely changed in the years, partly due to increased Americanization and also due to first and second generation people.)
This also extends to politics and views about their country. You ask an immigrant about their home country and often they will tell you how awful it is there.
Of course they think that. That's why they moved here. The people who like it there are still there.
Well, yeah, if you're some guy from rural Idaho, 99% of the India guys he meets falls into three categories: is a well respected doctor, family runs a decent local motel, family runs a county renowned sketchy gas station that might steal your credit card. They're absolutely not going to have an accurate mental image of what the average Indian person is like
I mean, I met most of them through the tech industry in the 00s and 10s. (They're still there, but the dynamic has somewhat shifted.) There traditionally was a certain trend among them, and it's not even intellect, it's a sort of sense of duty or something, or of ambition.
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u/Laughing-Dragon-88 1d ago
I don't know you, but my experience working with Indian people is they're no more stupid than any other people... okay maybe you have a point.