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CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA Musings on life, politics and economics from TOI's Washington correspondent

Everything about the US census of 2010 speaks well of Indians - Asian Indians or Indian-Americans, to be more precise, and not to confuse them with Native Americans, who continue to be wrongly termed "American-Indians". At close to 3 million, Indian-Americans, whose forebears come from India, constitute just around one per cent of the US population of 300 million, but are disproportionately well-represented in academia, science, technology, medicine and other areas. As is wellknown by now, they are the most-schooled, best-educated, highest-earning etc, even compared to native born white Americans, which is why many states and cities, counties and schools, fall over each other to get the best and brightest among them.
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Ashima MathurOct 22nd, 2011 at 11:59 AM

Very very informative and useful article. Well done research.

 
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