Wealthy POC: What has your career been like?

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“This “Hindoo peril” reached a crescendo in 1907 in Bellingham, WA, when a group of 500 white working men violently expelled Indian migrant workers from the city. The Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project provides a succinct summary of what transpired:

On September 4th, 1907 five hundred white working men in Bellingham, WA gathered to drive a community of South Asian migrant workers out of the city. With the mission of “scar[ing] them so badly that they will not crowd white labor out of the mills,” the growing mob rallied and went to work.1 The rioters moved through town, breaking windows, throwing rocks, indiscriminately beating people, overpowering a few police officers, and pulling men out of their workplaces and homes. They eventually rounded up two hundred or so of the South Asian immigrant workers in the basement of City Hall to stay the night. The mob was successful in that within ten days the entire South Asian population”

This country has a long history of treating POC badly.

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Anonymous wrote:Indian immigrant ...came 30 years to the US to go to school and great journey so far. Worked my butt off in the tech field on the biz side met my wife (2nd marriage for me) who was also Indian and got an MBA from a top school. Together we make over $800k..(almost equal each), NW ~$7M give or take and work hard/play hard. Career has been upwards with a lot of holding pattern. Work for an old tech company reporting to the EVP where all of them are white and I am the only minority. Most meetings I am the only brown person but I have always believed in letting my skills do the talking.On top of that I don't have a 'anglecized' name.


Could I have gone higher in my career if I was white...maybe or who knows. What a great country this is...both my wife and I came here with nothing but a few suitcases!

And a free education in your home country!

India does not provide free education except at elementary level, stop being jealous.

India does not provide free education except in special government schools in elementary levels. Education, housing and food costs are very high in India. In any case, it is very hard to get into college in India because there is no endless supply of colleges and community colleges like US. In fact, it is surprising to me that Americans do not utilize the free resources that is available in this country. Isn't it amazing that free education is available from K-12 to all kids in US but most of them will waste this opportunity and come to school only to be badly behaved and disruptive.

This is the kind of wastage that kills me because around the world poor kids want to go to school but they do not have the opportunity.

All the Indians I know in this country who came as adults were educated there and were at least middle class if not UMC. poorer Indians seem to have come in earlier immigration waves. Their kids are educated in the USA. What I know about those who are 1st gen immigrants of the last 25 years is that by far and large they had access to education in India and were connected enough to get to work in the USA (or to be foreign students here). They outnumber Indian kids of uneducated parents who went to school here when it comes to tech field specifically. Maybe it's different in medicine

You forget America’s racist policy towards Indians. They don’t let in the uneducated ones.

Remember the Asian Exclusion Act? When we weren’t even allowed to immigrate. Then they opened up immigration but only to educated Asians in science and technology fields.

When you only let in the educated from a certain group, then obviously you aren’t going to have the poor and uneducated from that region. Then obviously those that were educated enough to get the golden visa to immigrate are going to be successful. If the fail, they lose their green card. They have to be successful.

And you think immigrants that had to prove themselves that much to be accepted in this country are not going to push their kids to excel too?

Canada, UK, Australia- they don’t have Indian ‘model minorities’ because they allow immigration of Indians of different SES or ‘caste’ as you all like to dramatize. It’s the US that upholds this casteism is by not allowing poor, uneducated Indians immigration allowance.

What group of poor uneducated people does US allow to enter with the exception of those crossing our Southern Border?

And how exactly did uneducated Indians who worked low wage jobs and ran small businesses arrive decades ago? To immigrate legally from any country you have to have some family here or win Green Card lottery or be sponsored by your employer or a school.

Over the last 3 decades you were given advantage over other immigrant groups because tech industry decided to choose India as its hub for outsourcing. This fueled demand on education and to start churning eligible candidates, which certainly didn't hurt India's economy not to mention didn't hurt your chances getting here and building successful lives as educated professionals. Sorry your ancestors didn't arrive in Slave ships, lived under Jim Crow, or had their land stolen, so that you can enjoy the "white guilt".

You think whites wronged you and owe you?

Do you know how many taxi cab drivers are doctors? How many 7-11 workers were scientists?

Usually one person from a family would get the lucky visa, that person being in the science, tech or medical field. They worked hard to sponsor their sibling or parent. Some of who may have been educated some of who were not.

My mom came here as a nurse, on a skilled labor visa, she brought over her uneducated siblings. She was treated really badly in the hospital she worked at. (This was 1970) She eventually quit and started a small “low wage” business that she basically lived at 24-7. To her, she’d rather work day and night for herself at what was basically a small convenience store with no benefits or days off, than suffer the mistreatment she received because of her race and accent at her first place if employment in this country.
But she also could go back home. She knew if she worked hard enough here, at least her future kids would be better off. After all, they’d be born here so they’d be American and they wouldn’t speak with an accent.
She eventually brought her siblings, they worked at an auto shop.

There is a lot more nuance than most people want to know about. You get one family member educated, because education is expensive, and hope they make it to America and bring over the rest.

You seem angry. No one has discounted the hardships your ancestors went through. You are so quick to dismiss others.

But