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Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by HeadsUpHigh »

rramadass wrote: post #121
gautamcgoel wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Three things: first, I never said it was easy , only that it was fairly conventional . Second, I never said that anyone cheated on the USMLE (I agree that would be quite hard). Third, some of these comments suggest that somehow I have no idea what it takes to be a doctor. As a matter of fact, my mother is a pediatrician and a professor at one of the top 10-15 medical schools in the US, so I have a pretty good idea wh…

>nevertheless, I think it is a fairly conventional and unimaginative path to take in life, compared to, say becoming an artist or doing a startup. This is exactly privilege speaking. Starving Artists/Musicians/Humanities/Literature major are practically a meme and have become a cautionary tale on what to avoid until you have established yourself financially. Whether it is fair or not, life does not reward them in tod…

>This is exactly privilege speaking.

I'm not disagreeing with you here, but how is that even relevant in this discussion? This was about the path students from a high-level school took.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by compscistd »

Lvl999Noob wrote: post #127
compscistd wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Highly anecdotal, but my ex at the time (white), bio major, had a real tough time studying for midterms and finals in undergrad. Meanwhile, my cousin (Indian) in the same class was breezing through the exams, partying more than me (a liberal arts major!), generally screwing around and somehow consistently ended up with a better score. My ex couldn’t parse this and just assumed my cousin was smarter or more qualified…

Wait. So your ex _didn't_ study the old exam papers? That is like the first step in any preparation. "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

She didn’t have access to them because they weren’t made available by the professor, but instead, by past students.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by dnchu »

TrackerFF wrote: post #124
didibus wrote: post #38

A lot of places have societies where culturally the game is about getting ahead of others. You're all together in a society competing for the top spots. Whereas certain other cultures are more about working together to create an ideal environment for all to be emancipated and enjoy life to its fullest. Personally, I prefer the latter, as it just seems much more enjoyable and fun to live in such a culture. The former…

That's one thing I enjoy about Scandinavia - we have a very collaborative culture, where the community is above the individual. The concept of "gaming the system" is extremely frowned upon, and everyone should strive to be the morally best person they can be. But if you're financially or materialistically motivated, there are some drawbacks with this, though. - Higher taxes - More compressed wages (an Engineer with a…

Is that kind of culture sustainable?

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by bJGVygG7MQVF8c »

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.

Same here. As I love to remind people who poo-poo "wHitE sUpRemAcy": white supremacy is diverse and inclusive.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by boruto »

yumraj wrote: post #120
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 might have agreed had the comment been made by an Indian-American comedian, actor, author, journalist, ... someone in liberal arts, from someone with a truly unconventional career path. A PhD from Caltech in machine learning and optimization doesn't sound very different from being a doctor if we're speaking of conventional (read: boring) career paths

Well he has Americanized superior parents with ultimate forward looking attitude.

So he chose the highly unconventional path of PhD in STEM. After finishing it he would chose uncustomary and also forward looking job at FAANG.

While the Untermenschen from his school mates of indian origin chose to become doctors or did not persue the much forward looking career in TE.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by strikelaserclaw »

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…

His comment was about Indian Americans, who are on average much much better off than the average American, so really there isn't much need to bring third world resource scarcity mentality into raising your children here, but alas, you can take the immigrant from the country of origin but you can't take the country of origin from the immigrant.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by ankurpatel »

kubanczyk wrote: post #128
ankurpatel wrote: post #126

There is a story about this mocking Indian culture. One day the captain of the ship was transporting containers filled with crabs. When he discovered it was crabs he got upset and said to his fellow sailors to make sure there is lids on those containers so that they do not get out. To that one sailor said “Dont worry captain. These are Indian crabs. If one gets up another will pull him down.” I remember thinking of t…

I was told on Sri Lanka that if you put one crab in the bucket, he can easily get out. But if you put five, not one can get out because the others pull it down. Is it true? They didn't mention the crabs' nationality though.

This is just a joke.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by snazz »

kubanczyk wrote: post #128
ankurpatel wrote: post #126

There is a story about this mocking Indian culture. One day the captain of the ship was transporting containers filled with crabs. When he discovered it was crabs he got upset and said to his fellow sailors to make sure there is lids on those containers so that they do not get out. To that one sailor said “Dont worry captain. These are Indian crabs. If one gets up another will pull him down.” I remember thinking of t…

I was told on Sri Lanka that if you put one crab in the bucket, he can easily get out. But if you put five, not one can get out because the others pull it down. Is it true? They didn't mention the crabs' nationality though.

The “crab bucket mentality” is a pretty common idiom.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by palerdot »

Disclaimer: Indian

> We people like the wear the “tightly knit society” as badge of honour, let me tell you this “tightly knit society” has done more harm than good.

That is a sweeping statement that can be dismissed as garbage rightly. It would be better if author backs up with some examples on how he arrived at this conclusion. In any case, whether a tight knit society is good or bad for us is entirely subjective and should not be trivially generalized.

PS: The next line of the highlighted statement has some typo.

>We Indian people have no India of the amount of mental Probably should be fixed.

Maybe author meant 'idea', but came of as 'India'

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by kubanczyk »

snazz wrote: post #138
kubanczyk wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was told on Sri Lanka that if you put one crab in the bucket, he can easily get out. But if you put five, not one can get out because the others pull it down. Is it true? They didn't mention the crabs' nationality though.

The “crab bucket mentality” is a pretty common idiom.

Oh, TIL. I searched for some real zoological evidence, but found none.

Fun fact, my native language has no comparable idiom, although the phenomenon is very much present. We just call it "the mentality".

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