Analysis: People from India are active in education, tech and politics in the US and Canada.
India is rising across the US and Canada in education, tech and politics.
The CEO of five of North America's most powerful tech companies hails from India. They head Microsoft, Google, IBM, Twitter, and the Match Group (which owns Tinder).
And in the United States and Canada, people of Indian descent are politically active. The Economist said, "There will likely be an Indian-American president before a Native American president."
People of Indian descent outperform North American standards in education. Also, Indian-American wages are higher than any ethnic group in the United States and Canada. This is not to mention one study showing that people from India are almost four times more likely to own a home than the average Canadian.
The influence of Indian North Americans is destined to grow even further. Let's see why.
India is her second largest source of immigrants to the United States, with 4.6 million coming from India, or 1.4% of her total. They are primarily from southern India and tend to live in the southern and eastern United States.
In Canada, India was by far her first immigrant country of origin, accounting for her 30% of all new arrivals since 2016.
Canada has 1.4 million of hers with Indian roots. Most of them are immigrants. That's 4 percent of the total. Generally from northern India, most live in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton.
While some are high tech and soaring, the influence of people from India on Canadian businesses in particular is growing exponentially.
Technology departments in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver say2 out of 5 are foreign Immigration rules designed to protect workers bornand raised within the U.S. mean our southern neighbors will lose thousands of Indian tech professionals and others to Canada. increase.
US restricts coveted H-1B work visas, including rule that one country cannot source more than 7% of recipients ) and tech professionals are one of over 217,000 Indians who can work in Canada as international students (accounting for 30% of all international students).
Canada accepted her 128,000 new immigrants from India last year, many of them computer programmers. In 2015, when Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party was first elected, there were just 39,000 immigrants from India.
Such high-tech success was made possible primarily by the rapid rise in educational levels among people of Indian descent.
According to Pew Research, in the United States tthree of her four Indian-born adults have a bachelor's degree or higher. This is the highest among Asian immigrant groups, with Chinese Americans at 57% of her. The overall US bachelor's degree average is 38%.
In Canada,educational background is also prominent. A recent Statistics Canada survey by Theresa Qiu and Grant Schellenberg found that 50% of her South Asian Canadians (mostly from India) had a bachelor's degree or higher. That percentage rose to 62% she among South Asian women.
Canadians from South Asia are much more likely to have a bachelor's degree than 24% of white men, 38% of white women, 17% of Latin American men, and 28% of white women. . Percentage of women in Latin America. One of the few ethnic groups to score higher than South Asians is Chinese Canadians.
And wages reflect education levels. According to Pew, the median household income of Indian households in the United States is US$119,000, by far the highest among Asian groups.
A typical Chinese-American household income is US$82,000. The median household income in the United States is US$67,000.
US housing figures are not readily available, but a consumer survey by Toronto-based Vivintel found that South Asians, who are overwhelmingly of Indian origin,Four times more likely to buy ahouse than the average Canadian.
"Home ownership is very important for South Asians because they are told by their parents that renting is just throwing money away." India to Canada with family What.
One of the most interesting aspects of the rise of Indians in North America One is their enormous political influence.
And not just because of US Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris may be the frontrunner for future Democratic presidential nomination, but she is not alone in the US Hall of Fame.
Karthick Ramakrishnan, who researches Asian-American attitudes at the University of California, found that Indian-Americans are more likely than other immigrant groups to be involved in politics as donors, voters, and candidates. claims to be much more robust. They tend to favor Democrats by a margin of 3 to 1.
Illinois Senator Ram Birivaram says Harris running for president will give Indian-Americans more confidence. Pramala Jayapal was the first woman from South Asia to preside over Congress and is currently one of four influential Indian-American politicians in the House of Representatives called the Samosa Caucus.
A similar move is taking place in Canadian politics.
Like Indian Americans, Indian Canadians lean toward the liberal left. In his YouGov poll for 2021, more than 38% of his respondents would vote Libertarian.
One in five he supports the left-leaning New Democrats, his third largest party in India, led by Indian-Canadian Jagmeet Singh for his five years. did.
More than 12 percent of his cabinet members in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government are Indian-Canadian, including Harjit Sajjan and Anita Anand. At least 14 of her Liberal MPs are Indian-Canadian.
This list of influences applies not only to politics, but also to business and education. Indian North Americans are doing well.
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