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Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by imheretolearn »

gautamcgoel wrote: post #20

I am Indian-American, and while I cannot comment much about the culture of Indians in India, I can comment a bit about the culture of Indian-Americans, especially second-gen Indian Americans like myself. Many of my Indian-American classmates exhibit the behaviors described in this article. For example, in my high school (a magnet program for gifted students), there were several Indian-American students, many of whom…

>> I was lucky to have very "Americanized" parents who didn't raise me with these backward attitudes.

You miss the entire point of the article. You are privileged not only to have Americanized parents, but you are privileged because you are an American. Your world is way better than that of a common Indian student. Most Indian students need a job, just to be able to feed their families. Quoting from the article:

"When push comes to shove (which is the permanent state for most Indians), we only care about one thing, survival."

When it's about survival, everything else goes out the window. That's one of the points the article is trying to highlight.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by unishark »

rtx wrote: post #62
compscistd wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, it was the official Indian student group registered on campus. Nothing wrong with the association itself, but a large subset of it were Bio majors so I’d imagine that’s how many were involved.

Why is studying based on previous years questions cheating. Dont we do the same with white board interviews?

If the instructor says you can't do it then it is cheating.

It's common for professors to not allow students to keep exams for this reason. Students in such classes do a "brain dump" by writing down all the questions they remember immediately after leaving the test to get around this.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by rramadass »

imheretolearn wrote: post #71
gautamcgoel wrote: post #20

I am Indian-American, and while I cannot comment much about the culture of Indians in India, I can comment a bit about the culture of Indian-Americans, especially second-gen Indian Americans like myself. Many of my Indian-American classmates exhibit the behaviors described in this article. For example, in my high school (a magnet program for gifted students), there were several Indian-American students, many of whom…

>> I was lucky to have very "Americanized" parents who didn't raise me with these backward attitudes. You miss the entire point of the article. You are privileged not only to have Americanized parents, but you are privileged because you are an American . Your world is way better than that of a common Indian student. Most Indian students need a job, just to be able to feed their families. Quoting from the article: "Wh…

Thank You!, Thank YOU!, THANK YOU!

This right here is the truth. The article is simply a rant from somebody who has yet to grow up and understand the real world i.e. they are in a privileged position in life. When you have so much competition for limited opportunities, you cannot apply the same yardstick from a different environment. The Fight for Survival is as true of social structures as it is in biological ones. It seems this Indian American has no idea of the sacrifices his parents made in establishing themselves in America and providing him the privileged position from which he pontificates.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by hardwaregeek »

gautamcgoel wrote: post #20

I am Indian-American, and while I cannot comment much about the culture of Indians in India, I can comment a bit about the culture of Indian-Americans, especially second-gen Indian Americans like myself. Many of my Indian-American classmates exhibit the behaviors described in this article. For example, in my high school (a magnet program for gifted students), there were several Indian-American students, many of whom…

What's weird is how many students work their asses off, get amazing grades, go to top schools...and end up at a big tech company working with people who went to state school and community college. Of course going to a top school makes the application process easier, but only insofar that you clear the resume screen and get some confirmation/credential bias in your favor. Don't get me wrong, it's great that tech companies can have Stanford alongside community college. But honestly it seems a bit of a waste when my classmates who went to Stanford and Harvard end up at Facebook or Google. Truly the best minds of my generation devoted to getting people to click on ads.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by imheretolearn »

calibas wrote: post #61

> The prevalence of extreme signalling brews the classic and infamous herd mentality in our minds. In middle school children have dreams to become a Pilot in the airforce, or maybe a Police officer, or maybe a Opera Singer ! But by the time of high school, everyone is just either on road to become an Engineer, a Doctor, a Lawyer, a Chartered Accountant …. or a failure. This may seem harsh but that’s how most of the s…

>> Sounds remarkably similar to how I was raised here in the US

However, there are 2 differences:

1. In the US, it's not about survival.

2. And, I remember reading this somewhere and it's struck a chord.

"If you're one in a million, there are 1300 others just like you"

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by rramadass »

whitenoice wrote: post #53
gautamcgoel wrote: post #20

I am Indian-American, and while I cannot comment much about the culture of Indians in India, I can comment a bit about the culture of Indian-Americans, especially second-gen Indian Americans like myself. Many of my Indian-American classmates exhibit the behaviors described in this article. For example, in my high school (a magnet program for gifted students), there were several Indian-American students, many of whom…

Please. Being a doctor is boring? It is challenging to be a doctor, and it is almost impossible to cheat through the USMLE (US Medical Licensing Exam) process. It is a 3 step process, which includes four tough exams taken at registered centers, which are actively monitored. I'm saying this as a spouse of a physician who has gone through the journey, and the amount of work they put in through their med school, USMLE,…

Thank You for making clear that the OP has no idea of what he is talking about.

Simply because the path to a Doctor/Engineer guarantees you some basic safety net in life is why so many choose it. It does not make them "boring".

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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gautamcgoel wrote: post #20

I am Indian-American, and while I cannot comment much about the culture of Indians in India, I can comment a bit about the culture of Indian-Americans, especially second-gen Indian Americans like myself. Many of my Indian-American classmates exhibit the behaviors described in this article. For example, in my high school (a magnet program for gifted students), there were several Indian-American students, many of whom…

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Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by sanju2306 »

paxys wrote: post #2

This is all a very long winded way to say "a popular YouTuber asked teenagers to do something and they did it". Take out all the cultural aspects of it, and an Instagram/TikTok/Twitch influencer doing this here in the USA would have the exact same result, so I'm not sure I buy all the later reasoning.

Isn't two invalid PR going to ban you?

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by whitenoice »

ukd1 wrote: post #65
whitenoice wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please. Being a doctor is boring? It is challenging to be a doctor, and it is almost impossible to cheat through the USMLE (US Medical Licensing Exam) process. It is a 3 step process, which includes four tough exams taken at registered centers, which are actively monitored. I'm saying this as a spouse of a physician who has gone through the journey, and the amount of work they put in through their med school, USMLE,…

From the outside it does seem boring; a lot of rote learning and not a lot of flexibility once you're out, high risk of getting sick and or sued. 99.99% or more Doctors are not House.

To be a doctor is as hands-on as you can be unless you speak of radiology, but that too is fascinating. You spend four years of your life doing hands-on work during the residency (rote learning?). There is an infinite amount of learning in medicine! Even after so many years of research, we do not understand the human body completely. I don't know what is you mean by boring; as a layperson, everything will seem boring unless you put in the effort to learn more about a field. But still, liver transplant, heart transplant, lung transplant, surgeries, anesthesia, diagnosing unknown diseases are not interesting? (flexibility? there are so many fields) I suggest you visit a Level 1 Trauma center close to your home and see what goes on in there. Reality is more brutal than TV in this case.

It may be boring to you, and that is ok, but it does not negate the fact that it is a challenging field and demands immense hard work to be one.

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