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Why has the Indian diaspora been so successful?
Posted on 7/28/21 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 7/28/21 at 1:54 pm
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Dwarkesh writes to me:
Why do you think the Indian diaspora has been so successful? Just selection of the best immigrants from a large pool of candidates or something else too?
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Yes, there are plenty of Indians, and surely that matters, but I see several others factors at work:
1. The Indian diaspora itself is large, estimated at 18 million and the single largest diaspora in the world.
2. A significant portion of the better-educated Indians are hooked into English-language networks early on, including through the internet. The value of this connection has been rising due to the rising value of the internet itself. That is a big reason to be bullish on the Indian diaspora.
3. India has been growing rapidly enough so that people understand the nature and value of progress, yet the country remains poor enough that further progress seems urgent.
4. Many Indian parents seem intent on expecting a great deal from their children. The value of this cannot be overemphasized. This effect seems to be stronger in India than in say Indonesia.
5. There is especially positive selection for Indians coming to America. You can’t just run across a border, instead many of the ways of getting here involve some specialization in education and also technical abilities. Virtually all migrated in legal manners, and here is some interesting data on how the various cohorts of Indians arriving in America differed by wave.
6. More speculatively, I see a kind of conceptual emphasis and also a mental flexibility resulting from India’s past as a mixing ground for many cultures. Perhaps some of this comes from the nature of Hinduism as well, even for non-Hindu Indians (just as American Jews are somewhat “Protestant”). Indians who move into leadership roles in U.S. companies seem to do quite well making a very significant cultural leap. I cannot think of any other emerging economy where the same is true to a comparable extent. In any case, the intellectual capital embedded in Indian culture is immense.
7. Those Indians who leave seem to retain strong ties to the home country, which in turn helps others with their subsequent upward mobility, whether in India or abroad. In contrast, Russians who leave Russia seem to cut their ties to a higher degree.
8. I feel one of the hypotheses should involve caste, but I don’t have a ready claim at hand.
Marginal Revolution article
Posted on 7/28/21 at 2:04 pm to stendulkar
Based on the Indians I know personally....
1) Smart (for the most part)
2) Humble
3) Great work ethic
4) Emphasis on family/friends and helping them
5) Financially conservative (for the most part)
6) Easy to get along with
I know these are generalizations, and by no means are ‘factual’, just the average of what I’ve experienced around Indian friends in college and work.
1) Smart (for the most part)
2) Humble
3) Great work ethic
4) Emphasis on family/friends and helping them
5) Financially conservative (for the most part)
6) Easy to get along with
I know these are generalizations, and by no means are ‘factual’, just the average of what I’ve experienced around Indian friends in college and work.
Posted on 7/28/21 at 2:06 pm to stendulkar
quote:crazy
Many Indian parents seem intent on expecting a great deal from their children. The value of this cannot be
Posted on 7/28/21 at 2:07 pm to stendulkar
Are we talking dots or feathers?
Posted on 7/28/21 at 2:08 pm to stendulkar
I always heard the stuff about how the ones that come here are like the top 1% of the 1%. Well, out of 1.36 billion people, that is going to be exceptional.
Posted on 7/28/21 at 2:09 pm to jfw3535
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Are we talking dots or feathers?
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successful
There's only one answer between the two.
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