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Originally Posted by RST500
How much of this Indian growth is dependent upon tech expansion? There are also a lot of Indian migrants at the border who tend to be much poorer. Generally tech Indian immigrants are mostly Telegu and migrants at border are mostly Punjabi.
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A lot of Indians work professional jobs outside of tech. Go to any major metropolitan hospital and look at the share of Indian docs. Look at the automotive industry or any engineering concern. Yeah, the Indians in SV are probably in tech, but when you see growing populations in places like Toledo and Fort Wayne, you know it's much more than tech.
And Indians seem to love McMansion sprawl living. Go to McMansiony parts of your local metro, and you're likely to see a significant Indian share. A McMansion and his-and-her Teslas are stereotypes.
It's also quite clear that recently arrived Indians in the U.S. are generally from the very upper echelons of Indian society. The Indians I've worked with typically had a multitude of in-house servants growing up, went to Western schools, and have parents who flew them abroad for vacations. It's likely the 1% or .5% of Indian society. I believe Canada, Europe and Australia have a much more economically mixed group of Indian arrivals.