your poverty theory is flawed. India has some holy-fuck poor areas, but I don't see a lot of them in the Jail Report. If they came from severe poverty wouldn't they be FUBAR for life? Yet once they come here they do pretty damn well overall. Any thoughts?
A lingering caste system and a belief in multiple gods and reincarnation. It produces a sense of "So I'm FUBAR in this life, but just wait till the next one!"
The ones that have the means to come over here are generally highly educated and probably avoided ever living in severe poverty.
if their "next life" is being successful in the US.....mission accomplished! If the life after this (their third life?) is good then they have really struck pay-dirt!
Do you think it's generally the poor ones making it all the way to America? I worked with a lot of Indians and Africans at 7-Eleven, and not a single one of them were poor in the old country. They'd always been well-off professionals or skilled tradesmen back home, or the children of such people.
I didn't know that. Is this the same situation with the African immigrants coming here? I'm assuming that the ones joining the US military are not so well off financially (though they are pretty smart).
There is an awful lot of speculation in that one all presented by an interested party (the old defense lawyer) without much evidence.
sad their country is like that, but good for them that they can move to a great country like the US where they have more opportunity and potential for success in various endeavors. True the US is not perfect (no shit!) but if we are so fucked up why do so many people want to come here? Yet we have by-god born here folks and their families have been here for many generations who hate the US. Left, right, white, black, a lot of native born people would rather be somewhere else. I guess it's true.....one man's trash is another man's treasure.
When I was living in New York, I got hired on by a company that I was able to move up in and get promoted into a high position. Before then, I had always wanted to travel and visit Asia. The position I wound up in inadvertently and unexpectedly allowed me to do so. So, while I did want to visit Asia, it was through the position that I was in I was able to do so. So my open mindedness and cosmopolitan outlook was fulfilled inadvertently and unexpectedly. In other words, I wanted to do something, and at the time, my work allowed me to do something that I wanted to, at the time I was hired on, and before I was promoted, I never thought that working there would allow me to do so, and was a benefit that allowed me fulfill a desire to experience other cultures and customs of people from different nationalities. Are you going to say that I was forced to do something that I didn't want to do, as you have said to @El Chup?
I checked half a dozen other sources to make certain the information was consistent across the board, and it was, so this information is likely accurate.
The "old defense lawyer" was Dale Bumpers. Counsel for the Charleston school district who first advised them to comply with the Supreme Court decision on desegregation. Bumpers was later two term governor of Arkansas, multi term U.S. senator and oft mentioned as a dark horse Democratic candidate for president in the 1980s. Though I didn't personally like him (he was against the Reagan defense buildup and he was rude to me one year at the Pine Tree Festival) his personal integrity has always been considered pretty high.
No, what I'm saying is that you have piss poor reading comprehension. And again, you completely miss the point, either as a result of poor analytical analysis, or autism.
Ohhh, THIS is what Dayton is having a tantrum over in the lame parody shithole thread. So hard to keep up with the backstories to this shit.
@Dayton3, Ed says all I need to. For an "excellent teacher" I find it amazing you do not grasp the nuances of language.
Not true. A considerable amount of migration to the West from South Asian countries is unskilled. That is not to say there isn't a decent percentage who are indeed well educated, but "most" is nonsense. I find it ironic that you're always ranting about migrants from the Middle East being welfare bums, when actually economic migration from South Asia, particularly India, is far greater than from the Middle East (refugees fleeing war zones notwithstanding). This is in no small part due to the disparity in the economic standing of the poor compared to the middle and upper classes in places like India.
Jesus, do you live in a bubble? How about a gas station run by Indians? A convenient store/newsagents? How about the countless curryhouses? You think they're all staffed by people with IT degrees?
