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by Arjun
13 Mar 2017 13:19
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

Some Indian American dork woman invading Sean Spicer's privacy when he was shopping and peppering him with dumb questions!

http://nypost.com/2017/03/13/how-does-i ... ple-store/
by Arjun
07 Mar 2017 12:12
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Telugu States' News and Discussion
Replies: 2477
Views: 163709

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

And TN also has long history of STEM. History does not stand a chance before demographics unfortunately.. Tambrams are only 2% of TN population. The castes duking out in Telugu states comprise 15 - 16% at least. It would indeed be surprising if the emgiration numbers to US ran counter to AP perform...
by Arjun
07 Mar 2017 08:57
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Telugu States' News and Discussion
Replies: 2477
Views: 163709

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

habal wrote:the reason why AP managed to get so many visas to USA is due to the evangelical connection.
Quite a few Telugu castes are very STEM oriented...check out the percentage of Telugus in IITs / NITs etc. The percentage going to the US is pretty much in line with this.
by Arjun
06 Mar 2017 08:43
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

UlanBatori wrote:Your posts brilliantly vindicate the attitudes of people like Bannon towards what they consider to be rabble.
Why did this part of the response to KiranA disappear without the poster himself having edited it?
by Arjun
06 Mar 2017 08:38
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Kiran, Calm down UB has fought in Trenches for Indian Americans. One certainly appreciates that as long as the fight for Indian Americans is not at the cost of fight for Indians. More so, on this forum - unless the mandate of Bharat Rakshak has been redefined recently. I say this as an Indian Ameri...
by Arjun
06 Mar 2017 07:41
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

We are one billion people and we have our hopes pinned on a American to solve our Islamic terror problem in India , that too at a time when we may be near the finish line. Islamic terror is just one of the problems associated with having a Muslim population as large as India's - but by no means the...
by Arjun
06 Mar 2017 04:46
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Random acts do not yield only desi victims, which seems to be case so far after the elections. Ok, if we assume that there is an increase in killers targeting visibly brown and relatively well-off Asians - then random acts will likely yield mostly Indian American victims. Other communities are eith...
by Arjun
05 Mar 2017 09:42
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

https://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2017/03/04/harnish-patel-fourth-indian-american-killed-in-south-carolina-in-23-months423096/ Harnish Jayantilal Patel, 43, who was gunned down outside his home in Lancaster, South Carolina, on Thursday night, was the fourth Indian American killed in the Palmetto ...
by Arjun
05 Mar 2017 09:11
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

There have been numerous killings of Indian American storeowners (mostly Patels) over the years....usually by local criminals of Black / Hispanic variety. Also there is no evidence that Indian Amreicans are targeted more than other store-owners. This is the usual stupid Indian media rush to judgemen...
by Arjun
05 Mar 2017 09:04
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Indians are the default Arabs? Third hate crime in 2 weeks? After Kuchibhotla, Harnish Patel; Sikh man shot in US A 39-year-old Sikh man in the US was injured when an unidentified person shot him outside his home and allegedly shouted "go back to your own country." Is Harnish patel killin...
by Arjun
02 Mar 2017 08:45
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Interesting link: https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2015/topic-pages/victims_final These are for 2015. 2016 stats will come out towards end '17 Of the 1,402 victims of anti-religious hate crimes: 52.1 percent were victims of crimes motivated by their offenders’ anti-Jewish bias. 21.9 percent were victi...
by Arjun
28 Feb 2017 09:49
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

I was not talking of "IT", which is near dead anyways. Even Indian majors are moving to "AI" which is a death trap. Anything you manufacture/sell has traditionally gone through the US. That is what Trump is banking on. Well there is an easy way to measure what the US market is w...
by Arjun
28 Feb 2017 08:35
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

NRao wrote:The theory is that most trade, etc goes through the US. For both China and Europe to do well they have to sell to the US.
THe US + Canada would be around 40% of global IT market, with the share expected to decline due to higher growth in Asia.
by Arjun
28 Feb 2017 06:05
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Same with EU. EU came from EEC which was a result of two World Wars to contain Germany. With end of Cold War and financial crisis, EU is also losing its relevance. These are the big moves. Whether EU is 'losing its relevance' naturally is a question mark...It would have been an economic threat to U...
by Arjun
27 Feb 2017 18:16
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

The US is full of ignorant gun toting yahoos. In India, violence is almost always domestic or politically oriented. Which is bad too, of course, but you don't see Indian equivalents of Adam Purinton, thank goodness. Can you see an Indian in Mumbai or Delhi, drunk and accosting a Caucasian foreigner...
by Arjun
27 Feb 2017 06:43
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

On the whole brown vs white issue.... Middle Easterners are by definition white (I'm serious....there is a definition of white by The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the US. which says whites include all "original peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East"). Somebody n...
by Arjun
27 Feb 2017 05:47
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Thanks u mean - seldom :(( listened-to and ALWAYS wise. :mrgreen: Been there, done that, birather. I meant more like a split personality actually :wink: Must be genetic...Like the way the Mongol conquerors massively thwacked Islam and almost destroyed the religion and at the same time converted to ...
by Arjun
27 Feb 2017 04:33
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

The need of the hour is to band together as Indian Americans with an apex organization in the SPLC / ADL mould (like the occasionally-wise Mongolian suggests). There will be immense & MASSIVE pressure to band together as South Asian Americans, or victimology-driven front of South Asian+ Arabs + ...
by Arjun
26 Feb 2017 00:47
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

The danger is from the marginalized communities anywhere because it is ultimately linked to economics !

In the big cities and towns - the danger is broadly speaking from Blacks and Hispanics. In the more rural parts of the US, Indians should be wary of the marginalized white rednecks.
by Arjun
26 Feb 2017 00:22
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Completely wrong, actually. Like you discounted the car-jackings and other smaller crimes I have also gone only by the crime that resulted in murder - that of Navroze Mody. For Mody's murder: The four convicted of the attack were Luis Acevedo, Ralph Gonzalez and Luis Padilla, who were convicted of ...
by Arjun
26 Feb 2017 00:16
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

No you are incorrect. Hispanics means those who speak spanish - they can be white, black and anything in between. There are plenty of white hispanics and being essentially white westerns they dont face any discriminiation in USA. They have the luxury of chosing which side they belong to - some reta...
by Arjun
26 Feb 2017 00:03
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

kiranA wrote:A data point for you - 40% of hispanics are white .
Usually the term 'white' in the US is used for White (those who self-identify as 'White') non-Hispanics... at least that is how I am using the term.
by Arjun
25 Feb 2017 23:33
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

And for those interested in more data points, the murderer of Balbir Singh Sodhi was a Hispanic.

Bur the perpetrator of the Wisconsin gurdwara attack that killed 6 was a White supremacist.
by Arjun
25 Feb 2017 22:50
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 890422

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

For every tech engineer murdered by a white racist, there are scores if not hundreds of desi shopkeepers, taxi drivers, gas station operators and other small business owners/workers murdered by black and hispanic criminals over the years. And half of the racist attacks are because some white idiot ...
by Arjun
07 Feb 2017 10:26
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

Link please. Who are these "Silicon Valley Leadership Group"? I am not convinced though it may not mean much. There you have it. My 35% against your 58%. It is a tad too high, IMHO. http://www.570news.com/2017/02/06/apple-google-uber-join-fight-against-trump-travel-ban/ About 58 per cent ...
by Arjun
07 Feb 2017 08:40
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

35% are foreign born. 58% as per the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. The 58% seems to be only for actual FTEs working with SV firms. Presumably if you include contractors and outsourced work - foreign born % will be much higher. The real question is how many of those have advanced degrees from the...
by Arjun
07 Feb 2017 06:16
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

If you think about it, all we are doing is begging the West for jobs. On the contrary, its Silicon Valley that has been begging GOTUS for many decades now for access to global talent. And this access to global talent is what has enabled Silicon Valley to maintain its lead over the rest of the world.
by Arjun
05 Feb 2017 19:46
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

To make it clear that 4 killed were Indian citizens. I don't follow your logic. The data that you have presented is good. Our task now is to derive an inference from the data....the most obvious and valid inference is that 'Sikhs (whether American, Indian or Martian) are at higher risk in the US, p...
by Arjun
05 Feb 2017 19:16
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

^ all seven are Sikh Americans. That's a demographic that seems to be at risk due to Whites not having the context of their beard & turbans. I believe the local gurdwaras already have a number of reachout programs so the local community understands them better... That's the right way to go. Of ...
by Arjun
05 Feb 2017 18:45
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

^all seven are Sikh Americans. That's a demographic that seems to be at risk due to Whites not having the context of their beard & turbans. I believe the local gurdwaras already have a number of reachout programs so the local community understands them better... That's the right way to go.
by Arjun
05 Feb 2017 16:22
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis (9-8-2014)
Replies: 4147
Views: 885846

Re: Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis (9-8-2014)

It might also help if the NRI community would stop expressing their unwavering support for leftist (pro-muslim) policies in every western country they inhabit. This could help differentiate us from the muslims rather than being inadvertently lumped in with them. As the most recent example of this, ...
by Arjun
05 Feb 2017 13:02
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

^The loudest PIO voices that doth protest against India outsourcing - are against both H1-Bs as well as against transfer of work offshore to India. Basically, just about anything that is a threat to their own wellbeing as early squatters. Secondly, tech work can rarely be done by completely offshore...
by Arjun
05 Feb 2017 10:04
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

Like I have said earlier, talent is relative. An IIT Top-100 ranker may feel with some justification that there is a 'talent gap' that separates him / her from someone in ranks far below taking on one of the more out of the way streams (Naval Arch / Aero in earlier days...). Manipal University might...
by Arjun
03 Feb 2017 09:08
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

abhik wrote:What is anti India about what the Mongolian and others saying? It may be anti Indians who are dreaming of the American dream, but not anti India.
Read his posts again...he is not just against H1-Bs, he is against offshore business given to Indian tech firms
by Arjun
03 Feb 2017 09:04
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

Well, in the saga of the "Revenge of the American Shudra" some PIOs seem to have gone decidedly native - identifying with the serfs of their adopted country :lol: You don't know diddly-squat about what I, or kJo here, have experienced, I do empathize with you and other American workers who...
by Arjun
03 Feb 2017 07:20
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

Excellent point. You could compare cheeni birathers too. Lot more unity amongst them as well. The sheer glee displayed here at the potential problems that H-1B workers are going to face is quite shocking. Especially on BRF. Agree....I am an American citizen and only have a strong academic interest ...
by Arjun
02 Feb 2017 15:35
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

I will not waste my time clearing the fog you live in. Read UlanBator Saar's post 10 times. Enjoy onlee. :) Read UlanBatori's post 10 times ! Sorry, I prefer Hanumadu's cogent and logical arguments to long vacuous posts written with a lot of linguistic flourish but bereft of any logical content (no...
by Arjun
01 Feb 2017 09:29
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

It's the same here. When US citizens pay taxes here, there is no reason why the market should be damaged by people from abroad on fake grounds like "not enough talented people here". The people replacing others are not more skilled, they are just cheap. Companies post fake jobs just so th...
by Arjun
31 Jan 2017 17:27
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607992

Re: Understanding US thread-III

I wouldn't be surprised if left libs start pushing for burqa as new fashion statement - just to spite or protest against Trump's Muslim ban.

They are seriously THAT stupid !!