Most people 'get' living with an ICE car and there's no incentive to change yet, which is perfectly rational esp in jurisdictions like the US where gas is artificially cheap.

I'm an Indian, but an "ABCD" (American Bord Confused Desi). I can't read or understand Hindi anymore. I only ever had an "American" accent. I've had more than one girlfriend say I wasn't Indian, but American.

It does suck because I see where the resentment comes from. At least when I started, the ratio of competent to incompetent Indians was about the same as anyone else (race or whatever). You're always going to have good people and people who are idiots and shouldn't be there. It's always like a 50/50 split unless you're in one of the high end super-competitive markets.

I don't want to hate on my own people, but India as a nation has a deep seeded culture of corruption that needs to be dealt with domestically. America use to have one too (just look at E. H. Crump in Memphis back in the 40s), but today .. you don't bribe cops. It usually won't work. It's still common in parts of India. Some of their regions have grown a lot as far as infrastructure and worth ethic. They don't have tofu cities like China, but they also don't have streamlines traffic like the US or safe trains like the EU.

America use to bring over Indians who would either assimilate or have kids that assimilated. They brought over people who saw the problems domestically and wanted to get away from that and create a better life for their children. Yes, a good amount kept their own culture and arranged match-making for their kids, but a considerable amount didn't. It was a true culture mesh and they filled roles that were lacking in the markets. Today they're just lowering the value of Americans, as are more immigrants in general in markets that have been down for 6+ years.

The anti-Indian sentiment hurts the ABCD, and even those fresh-of-the-plane immigrants who truly know their stuff and/or want to take part in western culture. But we also can't just defend all Indians because we are Indians. That's not good either ... M. Night Shyamalan had one good movie and everything after has sucked ass!