u/NewDreams15

I don't think anyone would give a flying fuck if most of the visas went to, say German or British engineers immigrating and doing the exact same line of work. Conservatives would probably hold it up as a model of what "good immigration" looks like.

Has anyone else noticed that people seem to have this weird, seemingly impossibly high bar for Indian immigrants?

Like when they talk about us, even liberals mention strange language like "assimilation" and "fraud" and how we are "taking their jobs", while even immigrant communities who arrived completely illegally, work under the table, and have zero protections are treated with a basic level of sympathy and care?

And this really doesn't seem limited to one country. It feels like a universal thing all over the west, where it feels like Indians are treated with a weird level of suspicion and scrutiny that others just aren't. What really makes it unique is how both-sides it is, it feels like you're just as likely to hear someone on the left say that we are "taking their jobs" as someone on the right is.

Idk, I'm just tired of us having to be impossibly good just to feel like we belong. It's like we don't belong unless we are doing a job that literally no American out of 300 Million is qualified to do, magically "assimilate" in 3 weeks, while everyone else belongs as long as they're hard-working and haven't committed any crimes.