Most of the people – software developers and architects – on the team I’m working with are from India. I took one of them out to lunch today – a new engineer named ‘Sumi’ (actually it’s much longer than that and I’d probably spell it wrong if I tried). She’s Telugu, one of he subpopulations of India related to the Tamil, and because she’s an intelligent and attractive young woman, she’s somehow managed to meet quite a few Americans in the four months she’s been here.<\/p>\n
At lunch she talked about them, and was asking me in amazement “Why is it that when I talk to these young people, they are ashamed of being Americans and they tell me that they wish they were Indian? Do they know what it’s like to be Indian? I am Indian, and I love India, but after being here for a little while I think I love America better.”<\/p>\n
I asked her why. “Is it the money? I know that you can do better economically here.”<\/p>\n
“No,” she explained. “I actually took a cut in pay to come here. I was a manager back in Bangalore. I like it here because here I am free to be what I want to be, and not what my father or my aunts want me to be. I can follow my own heart and feel like I am making my own life for myself.”<\/p>\n
Welcome to America, Sumi. Personally, I’m glad you’re here.<\/p>\n
(note that these are quotes as close as I can remember them from 15 minutes ago)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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