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Then came the Silicon Valley boom, which shows no sign of letting up. As a result of all these circumstances, the Indian diaspora in the U.S. tends to be the intellectual and commercial elite. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, only 3% of Indian arrivals lack a high school education, and 75% of working Indians are college graduates. (For immigrants from China, the figure is 55%.) Says Rajini Srikanth, a professor of Asian-American studies at the University of Massachusetts: "What we got were people who already came blessed with all kinds of valuable baggage." In many cases...
Bigger changes loom with the second generation: the kids are sure to have ingrained Indian values but a world view completely at odds with their parents'. Dilip Massand, co-founder of Masala.com an Internet site for the second generation that he hopes to build into a "virtual diaspora," was raised from the age of six months in the New York City borough of Queens. Massand remembers going to makeshift Hindu shrines in people's basements. "The Catholics had beautiful churches, and the Jews had elaborate synagogues," he recalls. "I remember asking myself why our gods lived in a basement...
...further opportunities abound. "For me to start up a business in America, I'd have to come up with some brilliant idea," he says. "Here it's so simple: you find an idea abroad, modify it for Indian conditions, and you make money." The crowning achievement of the Indian diaspora may be that its members bring that same entrepreneurial spark back to life in their homeland...
...stop the Navy from resuming its bombing exercises, but they're hoping the spectacle of federal agents dragging off passive resisters will make the political cost of removing them prohibitive to the Clinton administration. Local politicians are warning that arrests at Vieques will trigger protests in the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York, Florida and Chicago, and one warned that "this is going to be worse than Miami for the Clinton administration." Paging Vice President Gore...
...Ukraine. His father, the director of the Medical Institute in Lviv, was murdered in 1941 by the Soviet NKVD because he freed some students who had been arrested. Causa pietatis, Dan (who made it to the U.S. with his mother in 1949) became an intellectual leader of the Ukrainian diaspora, working to keep alive in exile the culture that the Soviets were doing their best to destroy at home. Danylo presided (as managing editor and later as editor in chief) over a massive five-volume Encyclopaedia of Ukraine, which he assembled, with loving, exhausting labor, between...