PIO community in the US has much to thank the Afro-American population for.
If not for the existence of the huge Afro American community (that makes up about 9 % of the total US population), the attention of the white supremacists would have turned even more viciously to the next blackest community living in America - the Indian Americans !
Contrary to the fond belief of many middle class Indians back home in India, the great majority of the PIOs in the US are common middle class or lower middle class citizens or green card holders - their alleged distinction no more great than what the *competitive* salaries or wages they work on would allow !
Unlike the impression that the mainstream media has inadvertently cultivated among the Indian middle class, not every PIO is a medical doctor or engineer or lawyer or business tycoon of great significance or distinction. The fact is that the great majority are common workers or professionals who have just about managed a job to lead a middle class life and who are greatly dependent on social welfare and / or medial insurance to get by.
One of the leading activists of the still feared Ku Klux klan had described the Indian Americans a few years ago as *those abominable little cretins from yonder east somewhere*, showing as much revulsion and contempt as a few words would allow.
Considering the fact that public opinion in America is slowly building up against cheap workers from abroad displacing native Americans in low end jobs
Re: The 3 million strong
by piri on Jul 13, 2016 12:52 AM
it is the immigrant community from India - more than those from other countries such as China or Philippines or East Europe or even from Mexico - that stands compromised in finding their future in the US !
The number of immigrants from China to the US has virtually dropped to a trickle, and those from those other countries have never been anywhere near the number of Indians clambering in.
