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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To all those posters whose Indian parents came over in the 60s and are lamenting the loss of the "real" Indian values in Indian kids today...I've got news for you. Those 2000s kids are the real Indians. Your parents are frozen in time and nobody in India is like that anymore. I say this as someone who came to the US for undergrad in 2001. I still have all my family in India, [b]visit every year unlike very old Indian immigrants who don't have much to do with the country anymore.[/b] [/quote]

Actually most of that generation visits every year because they now have the money to do so.  They didn't before.  The generation that came over in the 60s worked hard to get here.  The generation that came over in the 2000s came over because they have rich families that could afford to send them here (people like you - what other 20 something can afford to go back to India every year?).[/quote]

Not PP, bu another 20s indian who came here on a full scholarship and saved carefully so I could go to India every year. Tickets to India are not very expensive you know. Less expensive than half a dozen shabby-chic dresses you probably buy at Anthro.[/quote]

Wonderful how this thread went for others hating on Indians to Indians hating on Indians?

For the record, those that came here in the 60s and 70s mostly came with nothing.  $8 in the case of my parents.  They didn't get full scholarships to American universities, they were granted visas to fill the science and medical void that was here at the time so they came to work their asses off and hope for a better life for their kids.  India was only a couple of decades out of colonialism and the prospects for the new country were not moving very fast.  They felt the pangs of colonialism and the growing pains (and wars) of a new country.

When you have nothing and you come to a new country (without the knowledge that we can now get from Google and the Internet), where pretty much no one you know has ever been to and you know no one in that new country- your immediate NEED is survival.  Not saving up spare dollars for yearly trips to India when air travel was not as common and WAY more expensive than it is now.  This was back when people actually dressed up in the best clothes for that international flight, not comfy leggings and a hoodie.

These were the people that paved the path for you.  They set up Indian restaurants, Indian grocery stores, temples, etc.  That sent money back home, they saved pennies to file for their brothers and sisters to come here.

Hate on the "older" generation and Indian American kids all you want, but without them you wouldn't have the opportunities you now do.

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+1,000,000.[/quote]

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