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WHY ARE INDIANS DESPERATE TO MIGRATE TO U.S.A? .
My blog ‘INDIA AMERICA BHAI BHAI’ attracted a lot of responses. Most people asked me ‘If you say that the USA is really all that bad why are so many Indians desperate to migrate to America?’
Very good question for which I have an initial answer ‘ON BALANCE LIFE IN THE U.S.A IS FAR BETTER THAN IN INDIA’.
The highlights of U.S society are:
• Respect for the law
• Respect for life
• Meritocracy in organizations
• High quality education especially at higher levels
• Possibility of all round development of one’s personality
• No day to day hassles in life
• Professionalism at all levels—from janitor to CEO
• Basic honesty of people
• Basic discipline in society
• No day to day corruption
• Even lower middle class people can lead a reasonably comfortable life [Most Indians in the US are upper middle class even by U.S standards]
• Talent, hard work and enterprise are rewarded
• Low level of violence
• Usual material desires –home, car, good food, travel etc –are achievable fairly easily
• Admissions to educational institutions are purely on merit and there is no need to pay bribes or undergo nightmares
• Freedom to lead life the way you like –no interference from others
• Dissent is expressed in a democratic fashion not with violence or bandhs .
• Systems exist everywhere and work almost all the time
• Customer is treated as king
• There is a certainty that what you are promised will be delivered at all levels.
You get the hang of it even if this list is not exhaustive. I hasten to add that there are negatives too. Hence, I stated earlier that ‘‘ON BALANCE LIFE IN THE IS USA IS FAR BETTER THAN IN INDIA’.
I notice that an average NRI in the U.S had, in the past, nothing but contempt for India. These days their attitude can be summarized as follows:
I can understand that problems like poverty will take generations to wipe out. What we feel sad about are the man made problems, the attitudinal problems the low value that India places on life, the fact that India never misses out an opportunity to miss out on an opportunity!
By the way I did not intend to say that the U.S is ‘bad’. Far from it, U.S.A is to my mind the finest place in the world for most people who value certain ideals.
India has vast untapped potential. Trouble is, do sufficient number of people who matter, really care?
Do the likes of Laloo, Mayawati, Karunanidhi care?
K.R.RAVI
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