South Asians: how much do you make? What do you do?
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They do, but they don't pretend. Not that I give two sh*ts about either extreme groups. |
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This crap keeps popping up a lot.. as though we 'owe' something to the dems. We don't. Let me flip the argument on you. The US owes Indian immigrants a lot for its current state of tech innovation. Without us Silicon valley would have stalled and the money and innovation would have happened elsewhere. Indians would have just gone there. See how that works? It's not about being a conservative or a liberal. Most of us generally support common sense policies. Is the federal govt. bloated, yes? Should we shut down the dept. of education? No. There's always room in the middle and just because that's not liberal enough for your tastes doesn't make us conservatives. Not that we care what you think.. Anyways.. we don't owe you or the conservatives anything. If you don't like Asians coming into the country, my country, change the laws.. if you can. 
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Yup, so make sense that you have money, no? I mean there is a reason that Pakistanis in Pakistan are starving as all the money has been stolen by their leaders in army, govt and politics. And the money has been sent abroad along with all their family members. Now, Pakistan is a failed and bankrupt nation. It is a different story for Indians. Indians have come here on their own academic merit and skills. America needed them to work for them. No one has given charity to Indians. All the money has been earned by Indians on their own by doing hard work and being frugal, and their remittance back to India from around the world, means that India has foreign exchange of $120B in its coffers. |
Anonymous
So many levels of stereotyping in this post. Thanks, Uncle, for your armchair nationalism. |
Anonymous
+1 Indian-American and my parents did not donate a lot to recognized charities here or in India but have donated a ton to their hometowns through people they knew and local orgs. I am not as connected to India and my donations are mostly in the US or to international orgs. And political. |
Anonymous
This is a dumb take. Indian-Americans are among the most heavily Dem-voting groups. |
Anonymous
That’s exactly my point. |
Anonymous
Dollars, dear. Some years, tens of thousands. Remind me what you do? |
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I am African American. No immigrants ever in family, we have been here since before the nation's founding. But no one cares that I am African American really. I don't even like all other African American people, some I know get on my last nerves! No people group is special. People care if I am kind, humble, a good coworker, and a friend of man. I make $120k.
Here's a great example of a "friend of man". https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/maude-e-callen-1898-1990-the-nurse-midwife-who-brought-healthcare-to-thousands-in-the-rural-south.5388235/ Maude E. Callen Maude E. Callen was born in Quincy, Florida in 1898. She had many siblings and was orphaned at age six. Callan was raised by her uncle, a physician in Florida, and became a devoted nurse. She served as a nurse-midwife in the Lowcountry of South Carolina for more than 60 years. Callen graduated from Florida A&M College and went on to the Tuskegee Institute for nursing coursework. In 1923, she was called as an Episcopal missionary nurse and set up a practice as a nurse-midwife in poverty-stricken Pineville, South Carolina. At the time, there were only nine nurse-midwives in South Carolina, and in her lifetime she delivered more than 600 babies. She also instructed other women on midwifery in the Pineville community and attended to thousands of patients in the area, most of whom were African American and poor. In 1936, Callen became a public health nurse with the Berkeley County Health Department. She continued training young black women as midwives and taught them about prenatal care, labor support, delivery and newborn babies. Life magazine published a photo essay of Callen’s work in 1951, and as a result, readers donated thousands of dollars to support her work in Pineville. She used the donations to open the Maude E. Callen Clinic in 1953, which she ran until she retired in 1971. Even after her retirement, Callen continued to volunteer and managed a nutrition program for senior citizens, which she operated out of the Maude E. Callen Clinic. The program offered cooked meals, home delivery of the meals five days a week and also provided transportation for the elderly. Many of the citizens she served were younger than Callen herself. She was reportedly invited to the White House by President Ronald Reagan, but declined the invitation because of her commitment to her volunteer service. |
Anonymous
I disagree. I thought it was a great post. There is a massive need for what this person does. There are too many families using abusive tactics to force their kids onto paths that don't suit them. I come from another ethnic group where this is common and it can cause a lot of damage. Another huge issue that comes up is how some of these systems reject those with special needs and how alienating it can be for families raising a child with sn. The parents did everything their parents wanted and then having the nerve to raise an innocent child with delays makes them all be rejected-no bragging rights. |
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This hasn't been true in my experience. Remember, in the Tiger Mom book, Amy Chua talks about how proud her own mother was with her younger sister with autism. They were so proud of her for holding down a job at Walmart. This resonates with my experience in the Asian American community as well. Also, there is not a "massive need" for Asian psychologists. Asian-American culture looks down on the narcissistic navel-gazing inherent in therapy. I'm glad that we are mentally strong enough as a community to not be like the self-absorbed White Americans who rely on therapy as a crutch for even when the smallest things in their life go wrong. |
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Read about Mayor LaGuardia, a man of immigrant heritage, dedicated to public service and improving the lives of all people of his city, those who looked like him and those who did not. He was characterized by his compassion. Isn't that a great legacy?
The Little Flower: Fiorello LaGuardia Here’s a story about Fiorello LaGuardia who was mayor of New York City during the worst days of the Great Depression and all of WWII. Many New Yorkers adored him. They took to calling him the “Little Flower”. All because he was so short and always wore a carnation in his lapel. Mayor LaGuardia was a colorful character. Where is Arthur MacArthur IV? (Little Known Secrets about Him) He rode the New York City fire trucks, raided city “speakeasies” with the police department, and took entire orphanages to baseball games. When the New York newspapers went on strike, he got on the radio and read the Sunday funnies to the kids. A Fine Must Be Payed One bitterly cold night in January of 1935, the mayor turned up at a night court. The court served the poorest ward of the city. Mayor LaGuardia dismissed the judge for the evening and took over the bench himself. Within a few minutes, a tattered old woman was brought before him, charged with stealing a loaf of bread. She told Mayor LaGuardia that her daughter’s husband had deserted her. Her daughter was sick and her two grandchildren were starving. But the shopkeeper, from whom the bread was stolen, refused to drop the charges. “It’s a really bad neighborhood, your Honor,” the man told the mayor. “She’s got to be punished to teach other people around here a lesson.” Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia sighed. He turned to the woman and said, “I’ve got to punish you. The law makes no exceptions. Ten dollars or ten days in jail.” Even as he pronounced the sentence, the mayor was already reaching into his pocket. He extracted a bill and tossed it into his famous hat. He proclaimed, “Here is the ten dollar fine which I now remit; and furthermore I am going to fine everyone in this courtroom fifty cents for living in a town where a person has to steal bread so that her grandchildren can eat. Mr. Bailiff, collect the fines and give them to the defendant.” Famous Compassion: Mayor LaGuardia The following day, New York City newspapers reported the incident. A bewildered woman who had stolen a loaf of bread to feed her starving grandchildren received $47.50. The grocery store owner himself contributed fifty cents of that amount. Furthermore, some seventy petty criminals, people with traffic violations, and New York City policemen participated. Each of whom had just paid fifty cents for the privilege of doing so, gave the mayor a standing ovation. Someone beautifully said, “Sympathy sees and says, ‘I’m sorry.’ Compassion sees and says, ‘I’ll help.’ When we learn the difference, we can make a difference.” Just like Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia… A Timeline of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia Before He Became Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was born in New York City on December 11, 1882. Italian Catholic father and an observant Jewish mother Fiorello’s first job was with the U.S. Embassy in Budapest in 1900. He later worked for the U.S. Immigration Service in New York City while he studied law at New York University. LaGuardia was admitted to the bar in 1910. In 1916, he became the first Italian-American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. A Vocal Opponent Of The Nazis Fiorello LaGuardia belonged to the progressive wing of the Republican Party. He opposed prohibition, supported women’s suffrage, and passionately campaigned against child labor. In 1932, he co-sponsored the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which restricted the power of courts to ban strikes. LaGuardia also became known as an early and vocal opponent of the Nazis. Also in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s landslide victory swept away many Republican members of Congress, including LaGuardia. LaGuardia felt undeterred by this and finally won the mayoral election of New York City in 1933. He became affectionately known as ‘The Little Flower’ due to his 5 foot 2 stature. His compassionate attitude towards the people of New York is undeniable. Over the next twelve years, he developed a reputation as an efficient and honest administrator. A supporter of the New Deal, LaGuardia expanded the city’s social welfare services. Furthermore, he initiated a program of low-cost housing. One of his best-known remarks was, “There is no Democratic or Republican way to clean the streets.” The First man Elected Mayor Of New York For Three Consecutive Terms Fiorello H. LaGuardia was the first man to win the election of Mayor of New York for three consecutive terms. Many people agreed that he was like New York’s most colorful Mayor since Peter Stuyvesant. Dynamite and aggressive, he was a fighter by nature and constantly flew all over the country by airplane. He would take on anybody, no matter their size, including Hitler. He even went as far as to make brave public remarks that caused a stir. When he took office as Mayor on January 1, 1934, Fiorello LaGuardia had climbed higher on the political ladder than any other American of Italian descent. LaGuardia came to office in January 1934 with five main goals: Restore the financial health and break free from the bankers’ control. Expand the federally-funded work relief program for the unemployed. Ending corruption in government and racketeering in key sectors of the economy Replace patronage with a merit-based civil service, with high prestige Modernize the infrastructure, especially transportation and parks He achieved the majority of the first four goals in his first hundred days. FDR gave him 20% of the entire national CWA budget for work relief. LaGuardia then collaborated closely with Robert Moses, with support from the governor Democrat Herbert Lehman, to upgrade the decaying infrastructure. Fiorello LaGuardia’s Childhood And Start in Politics Fiorello LaGuardia’s parents came to the United States from Foggia, Italy. Although he was born on the East Side of Manhattan on Dec. 11, 1882, Fiorello LaGuardia was by no means a product of the city streets. |
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46. $170k GS-15.
DH 47. $220k. Non FAANG tech. |
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My boss is a GS-15 so makes at least 145k, he is white
My team lead is black American, a GS-14 Another team leas is white, a GS-14 We can list the salaries of millions of Americans so millions of dcum posts |
Anonymous
Do you know what “innovation” is? Indians, much like Chinese, Japanese and most otters can mass produce…think writing code all day long. Do yourself a favor and look up innovation and whet mar nations are masters at it. Indians not in the pic |