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Old 07-23-2016, 12:49 PM
 
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Very interesting article on why these Hindus are for Trump. But just as interesting is why they as a minority are doing so much better than other minorities. I've been posting for ages the importance of how culture and values shape a race or community and this article shows the consequences of good values in a minority culture.

Hindu-Americans have the highest per capita income of any group, and the highest education levels, and Minimum crime. One in seven Himdus are entrepreneurs.

Hindus for Donald Trump | RealClearPolitics

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Old 07-23-2016, 01:00 PM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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Oh boy, it is "our culture" LOL

As if everybody in that little group shares the exact same culture.

I personal know couple of hindus that are not doing so well. If you are doing great, good for you, but please, refrain from teaching other minorities why you are doing so much better than them.

Funny as hell
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Old 07-23-2016, 01:07 PM
 
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Oh boy, it is "our culture" LOL

As if everybody in that little group shares the exact same culture.

I personal know couple of hindus that are not doing so well. If you are doing great, good for you, but please, refrain from teaching other minorities why you are doing so much better than them.

Funny as hell

There will be poor and rich among all cultures. That does not discount the fact that some cultures produce more economic contributors than others.


The fact there are so many Jewish Nobel Prize winners is no mere coincidence.
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Old 07-23-2016, 01:10 PM
 
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Must be why the majority of India is so wealthy nobody ever wants to emigrate from there.
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Old 07-23-2016, 01:12 PM
 
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You guys aren't reading the article.
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Old 07-23-2016, 01:13 PM
 
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Must be why the majority of India is so wealthy nobody ever wants to emigrate from there.
lol
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Old 07-23-2016, 01:16 PM
 
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There will be poor and rich among all cultures. That does not discount the fact that some cultures produce more economic contributors than others.


The fact there are so many Jewish Nobel Prize winners is no mere coincidence.
To me, financial well being is just one aspect of "success".

Getting involved with community service is another. Generally speaking, I don't see many Jewish folks have superiority complex.
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Old 07-23-2016, 01:16 PM
 
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Must be why the majority of India is so wealthy nobody ever wants to emigrate from there.
Hey, that's where all the jobs are. The US economy is booming there.
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Old 07-23-2016, 01:18 PM
 
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Completely biased article. Indian-Americans or Hindus? All of the former are not part of the latter. All of the latter are not part of the former.

I find it interesting that the article had no problem acting as though there are no Christian or Muslim Indian-Americans that are helping those statistics, but yet nothing is attributed to them as Indian-Americans.

Hindus make up little over half of the Indian-American community. Around 20 percent are Christian, 10 percent Muslim and then Sikh and others.

So this article found it completely fine to ignore and the contributions of almost half of the Indian-American community and attribute it all to one religious group among them. It also ignores the fact that there Hindus that come from places other than India.

SMH.
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Old 07-23-2016, 01:18 PM
 
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Lily, there are cultural differences between people. There are jobs dedicated to studying the differences. Cultural anthropologists is one such job.

Some cultures are very hard working, place much importance on education and good grades, for example.

That doesn't mean everyone in that culture does that, but that for the most part, those things are part of their value system.

There's a reason stereotypes exist - they often start out with some kernel of truth and get exaggerated after that.
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