"Indian-Americans have achieved a breathtaking amount in this country in a couple of generations. What's impressive is both the range of their success and that they have succeeded entirely on their own steam. No ethnic or racial favors have come their way from schools, colleges or government. At least until the recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, it was a disadvantage to be an Indian student applying to an Ivy League school.
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I'm an ethnic Indian immigrant to the U.S., in the process of becoming an American, but I don't write this to be self-congratulatory. Instead, I do so to point out that contrary to claims of "systemic racism" and pervasive "white privilege," America has been a place where this ethnic minority has blossomed. Indians constitute just under 1.5% of the country's population, and yet we've had two IndianAmericans (Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy) compete for the Republican presidential nomination this year. Vice President Kamala Harris, lest we forget, was born to an Indian mother. Indian-American CEOs run Google and Microsoft as well as Novartis, Starbucks, FedEx, Adobe and IBM.
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What Indians don't specialize in is grievance. There is no Indian lobby pushing for increased "representation" in this or that economic or political sector, no pressure group ululating for ethnic enclaves, or for information to be provided in a language other than English. You won't be told, when you call your bank, to "press 2 for Telugu." You won't have Indian parents at American public schools clamoring for special dispensations for their children. There is, instead, a quiet determination among Indian-Americans to take full advantage of being in a land that gives them a range of opportunities unavailable in their country of ancestral origin.
It is deeply unfashionable to speak these days of the American Dream. To do so marks you out, in certain circles, as anachronistic or sentimental. But if there's one group that holds fast to its belief in the American Dream, it's Indian-Americans. Unapologetic about their drive to thrive, they are rightly scornful of those who would say that America is a place that thwarts people on the basis of race."
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