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I bet the spending power of non-India Indians in the rest of the world is huge.
by psergeant 8y ago
I bet the spending power of non-India Indians in the rest of the world is huge.
- r_singh 8y ago"non-India Indians" are called NRIs (non-resident Indians). And you're right, in the list of ethnic groups in USA by household income, Indian Americans rank number 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
- psergeant 8y agoDoes NRI apply to people without Indian citizenship?
- r_singh 8y agoNope, strictly speaking NRI is a tax status of people who are Indian citizens but do not reside in India. Foreign citizens who descent from Indian origin are called PIO i.e. person of Indian origin
- njpatel 8y agoIn banking/government terms, yes, but in general terms NRI is used much wider to describe a person of Indian origin. At least in West India.
- psergeant 8y agoDoes “Desi” work in this case? Is it offensive for a white guy to say?
- calvinbhai 8y agoDesi is not offensive or derogatory. I fact, in the US it seems to be used to refer to anyone from the subcontinent, not just from India. Desi is probably a better term, since NROs, PIOs and non Indian brown Asians are usually target audience for such content :)
- r_singh 8y agoWould depend on context, but for the most part it's not at all offensive. In my experience Indians in Silicon Valley refer to "indian things / culture" as Desi all the time.
- r_singh 8y agoIt might be interesting to know that the Sanskrit word "desi" itself just means country
- psergeant 8y agoMany words starting with n and with gs in them are just color descriptions. Shortened versions of Japanese and Pakistani are offensive in some countries but not others. The Thai word for Indian is “visitor” as in “not from here, will go home soon”. Plenty of words with innocuous meanings pick up offensive meanings.