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I was fortunate enough to have several Indian students in my classes when I taught at Purdue University. I consistently found them to be more than a cut above competing students from both other countries and certainly the USA. I ran across an article recently in the WSJ about the Indian population. The thrust of the article was that they don’t complain, don’t seek quota advantages, they just go about excelling. I used Poe to extract in bullet point format the highlights of the Indian population in the USA which is provided below. They ARE gaining on the US population in just about any important category you can imagine. Following from this link.

  • Indians constitute just under 1.5% of the country’s population.
  • Two Indian-Americans (Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy) competed for the Republican presidential nomination in 2023.
  • Vice President Kamala Harris was born to an Indian mother.
  • Indian-American CEOs run major companies like Google, Microsoft, Novartis, Starbucks, FedEx, Adobe, and IBM.
  • Indian-Americans have the highest median household income in the U.S. by ethnic group, almost twice that of white households and three times that of black households.
  • Two-thirds of Indian-Americans have college degrees, and 40% have postgraduate degrees.
  • Indian Americans have the lowest divorce rates of any ethnic group in the country.
  • Indian Americans own 60% of all hotels in the U.S.
  • One in every 20 doctors in the U.S. is Indian, and 1 in every 10 students entering medical school is Indian.
  • Indian deans are common at top U.S. business schools, including Chicago, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, and New York University.
  • Indian Americans are not known for grievances or pushing for increased “representation” or special accommodations.
  • Indian-Americans are unapologetic about their drive to thrive and believe in the American Dream.