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LOL sorry but not true at all, outside of California the highest concentration of Indian-Americans are in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts,Maryland, and Illinois. I have relatives in all of those places including Minnesota (outskirts of Minneapolis), one uncle in Nebraska and relatives in Connecticut. Hispanics are literally non-existent in those states (minus Puerto Ricans in NY) and most people including the White Americans are very glad for this.
And no Mexican-Americans are not buying up upper class neighborhoods throughout California. Please stop.
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"Hated" what does you mean? Hated by racist people? For sure black people. Blacks are not hated by people in general, only by racist ones, but I could also put "Nordestinos' in the same level.
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Indian-Americans make up less than 1% in all those states you mentioned.
What a fool. Hispanics mostly Mexicans are 13% of Illinois pop. Infact Chicago has 1.2 million Mexican descendants ,2nd most Mexican descendants after Los Angeles.You have never visited Chicago obviously .I have many cousins,2nd cousins in Chitown.Hispanics are literally non-existent in those states (minus Puerto Ricans in NY)
Hispanics in the other states are 4-9% of the pop. Indian-Americans are less than 1%
The white rednecks from the midwest hunt and kill Indian-Americans. 20 Indian-americans slaughter inside a Hindu temple in Minnesota:and most people including the White Americans are very glad for this.
Mexican-Americans and White Americans worship together in Catholic or Evangelic churches.
(. Indian engineers and tech workers slaughter in a bar in Nebraska,Washington etc . Indian-American kids bullied and get beat up by white kids.
Not yet,but Mexican-Americans are buying up neighborhoods that have been tradionallly middle class and upper middle class in Southern Calif .And no Mexican-Americans are not buying up upper class neighborhoods throughout California. Please stop.
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Indian Americans Reckon With Reality Of Hate Crimes
Since the February death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, the first bias fatality of the Trump era, one question has been coursing through South Asian-American circles: was this hate-crime killing in Olathe, Kansas their "Vincent Chin moment"?
In "The Making of Asian America: A History," author Erika Lee quotes activist Helen Zia as saying, "Suddenly people who had endured a lifetime of degrading treatment were wondering if their capacity to suffer in silence might no longer be a virtue."
Like Chin, Kuchibhotla was an immigrant, and had moved to the country from India.
Both men were victims of ethnic mis-identification: Chin's killers thought he was Japanese, and that he was somehow to blame for U.S. auto manufacturing jobs being lost. In Kuchibhotla's case, the alleged shooter told a bartender that he'd killed two Iranians, including Kuchibhotla's friend Alok Madasani, who survived.
But for all the similarities, there is one important difference: Chin was working class, while Kuchibhotla was an engineer who was, in the words of his widow, able to buy their "dream home" in suburban Kansas City.
This fact, however, may help explain why Kuchibhotla's death has generated an unusual degree of alarm in the Indian community, including segments that have not otherwise been politicized.
Unlike many of the Sikh and Muslim victims of past hate crimes, including those which occurred after 9/11, Kuchibhotla was Hindu. He was, in other words, an everyman figure in the eyes of many in India, and just as importantly, his death comes against a backdrop of rising white nationalism and disaffection.
For Bay Area activist Anirvan Chatterjee, the shootings in Kansas served as "a huge wake-up call" for Hindu Americans.
"They thought they were safe," he said. "They thought their bindis would protect them, they thought their last names would protect them, they thought their advanced degrees would protect them, and something changed."
Another factor is wealth. Indian Americans have the 5th highest median income by ethnic group, and this attribute may have helped inoculate the community against a sense of threat.
"I think there was a sense of 'Look at the tremendous success' and there was perhaps a complacency that we didn't have to do the basic building blocks" of organizing, said Raj Goyle, a former state legislator from Kansas who now runs a tech firm in New York.
"Indians, We are the white people of brown people," said Indian comedian Vir Das on a recent episode of Conan. Das waited for the laughter to die down before adding, "Because when we get shot there's an investigation, ladies and gentlemen."
In other words, we're dark enough to be the targets of hate crimes, but connected enough that the powers that be actually pay attention.
That paradox explains why even the wealthiest Indian Americans are now mobilizing: Goyle is co-founder of the Indian American Impact Project, an organization that is encouraging Wall Street executives, venture capitalists and others to invest in progressive political candidates and civil rights groups, and to align with other communities of color.
Suman Raghunathan, executive director of the civil rights group South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), thinks this is a significant change because, unlike in the post-9/11 era, the fear is now reaching into every corner of the Indian-American community.
"There's a blanket sense and understanding among folks that we are all in the crossfire."
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Yes, but this does not negate the fact that not all Indians in the US are as successful those the article points out. Those Indians that own hotels also employ other Indians that are less fortunate to work at the hotel just as those Indians that own gas stations often employ Indians that are less fortunate to work the cash register and stock the store. But again, you are comparing apples and oranges. Indians are a very small group and has less of a margin for poor people, especially since those that arrive either come from middle class Indian homes or have relatives in the US that assist them to financial success. If we compare white Americans to a large Indian group such as to India itself, Indians fall far behind white Americans and have higher poverty rates as well. This would be comparing apples to apples.
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I had to clean up after Indians yesterday. It was a nightmare.
They made a huge mess and didn't even tip. Also the rooms smelled awful.
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