Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Should India be worried when Trump does not say too many times that Indians are stealing US jobs?

Donald Trump mentioned China, Japan, and Mexico as US job thieves many many times in his presidential campaign. India did not appear too many times in that slot. Just a decade ago Indians were considered the top American job thieves. It is well known that Indian students are among the best in the world. The dot busters of New Jersey feared them. Subsequently, the Silicon valley programmers hated Indians. What happened over the years? How did the fear go away? Mainly because Indians were disposable, faced glass ceilings at corporate and academic jobs, and the fear slowly went away. Indians working abroad mainly have an option of living with glass ceilings and making enough money to retire in India. Very few people can pursue their incomplete careers in India. India has very little room for highly trained scientists. India being a huge market can always have sufficient rich people by just taking care of basic needs of their own people. On the other hand, the medical professionals were among the first people to face discrimination in the global arena. They had no choice but to make it good in India. So now India has a medical care system that can compete with any country in the world which has scope of becoming infinitely better. Indian medicine has not sufficiently tapped in to the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda yet, but it is only a matter of time that Indian medicine will be the best in the world. Space, Medicine, and Nuclear energy, where Indian scientists could not export themselves, are the fields that India has done well. But other fields like Computer science, India is way behind China. In conclusion, India is not in Trump's radar because Indians are no longer taking jobs American want. Moreover, China, Japan, and Mexico took American jobs to their own countries. That makes a whole world of difference.

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