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Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India
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#112A 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…
Having grown up in the latter culture, and moved to the former (or at least a country where it’s more prevalent), I think I’d find it hard to go back.
While the latter is generally a lot more relaxed. It’s also really bad at rewarding exceptional people, so I find that basically all the exceptional people I met there have moved to different countries/cultures.
From a friend who moved back I heard that he suffered from some severe reverse culture shock. “Like, people just drink coffee half of the day.”
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#113I think the author touched on this lightly, but I feel like there is a little more to be said about “signaling” or what I like to personally call, “resume flexing”. In India, all people at all times are building their resumes for a semi-vague goal usually wealth or a happy retirement. This idea is embedded quite early on in age as the article author suggested - you’re usually pointed at a career in middle school that…
Is this also why there are so many low quality videos on technical topics by people which seem to be from India? A way to pad their resumes? Or is this a result of a course requirement or something else?
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Some professors try to go after students who sell their notes for the class.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t understand why you seem to imply that half arsing your education is fine if it means you get a job? Why not make the best of it and get a job? Any Indian with access to a computer can potentially be a (much) better hire than the one from the most desired engineering college. In fact, I’d almost have to expect so since they don’t have to waste time on all that signalling. It’s unfortunate that that apparently…
>> I don’t understand why you seem to imply that half arsing your education is fine if it means you get a job? Why not make the best of it and get a job? Quoting from the article: "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 Char…
> How do you expect someone to understand the intricacies of fluid dynamics when they don't give a rat's ass about it.
The same way I studied everything in high school? I certainly didn’t give a fuck arout the molecular mass of hydrogen, but since I was going to be there anyway, I might as well spend my time there actually learning instead of sleeping.
It’s unfortunate if that situation continues into university, but hardly the end of the world.
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#116> Somehow Indian parents will become self sufficient, so that children are free to do and discover what they actually want. This bit near the bottom (under "improbable futures") really struck me as necessary, and not just an Indian problem. The pressure to be generally successful and support their immediate family is hard enough on anyone, but adding onto that the pressure to be able to care for your parents when the…
Having your elderly parents live with you isn’t necessarily all a burden: often they help out in household chores, cooking, babysitting your children…I mean, yes, the expectation might be that they’re living rent-free but in a productive relationship they are also providing tangible benefits by being present.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> I don’t understand why you seem to imply that half arsing your education is fine if it means you get a job? Why not make the best of it and get a job? Quoting from the article: "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 Char…
> How do you expect someone to understand the intricacies of fluid dynamics when they don't give a rat's ass about it. The same way I studied everything in high school? I certainly didn’t give a fuck arout the molecular mass of hydrogen, but since I was going to be there anyway, I might as well spend my time there actually learning instead of sleeping. It’s unfortunate if that situation continues into university, but…
>> It’s unfortunate if that situation continues into university, but hardly the end of the world.
And then from university, goes on to become your career. On, which you spend 1/3 of your day for 40 years.
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#118I think the author touched on this lightly, but I feel like there is a little more to be said about “signaling” or what I like to personally call, “resume flexing”. In India, all people at all times are building their resumes for a semi-vague goal usually wealth or a happy retirement. This idea is embedded quite early on in age as the article author suggested - you’re usually pointed at a career in middle school that…
>and of course America over everything else
Ha, Ha, Ha! Very funny but true.
Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India
#119I think the author touched on this lightly, but I feel like there is a little more to be said about “signaling” or what I like to personally call, “resume flexing”. In India, all people at all times are building their resumes for a semi-vague goal usually wealth or a happy retirement. This idea is embedded quite early on in age as the article author suggested - you’re usually pointed at a career in middle school that…
Is this also why there are so many low quality videos on technical topics by people which seem to be from India? A way to pad their resumes? Or is this a result of a course requirement or something else?
You must have been looking at the wrong places then (Youtube is not a good indicator). Here is "National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)" which publishes a lot of high quality courses from various top-ranking universities in India - https://nptel.ac.in/
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#120I 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