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One of my former supervisors informed me to this reality. He laments having to travel through Singapore because the experience of an Indian over there is more t
by jxramos 9y ago
One of my former supervisors informed me to this reality. He laments having to travel through Singapore because the experience of an Indian over there is more troubling as he is in the minority being well todo and educated while the bulk of Indians in Singapore are lower class/uneducated and treated differently. He said something to that extent, and I realized that yes the ones who managed to make the big trip here had in fact passed through a filtering process, while more local regions about India can receive those with lesser means and do.
- danans 9y agoAnother angle to consider is that well to do Indian immigrants in the US, while less likely to follow the traditional codified restrictions of caste, are quite likely to engage in their adoptive societies' own (often unspoken) rules around class. Hence, in places like the US, Indians are more likely to have professional spouses, whether those spouses are Indian or not.