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Originally Posted by lucky81698  (I'm sorry if I offended you in any way)
Just out of curiosity, do you know why so many doctors are from India? At least where I live there are so many including mine (who I am very happy with). Is it true that the Indian government sends them here for school and they are supposed to return after their training but decide to stay here Or is that a myth? My son has had some friends in school that were Indian and it seemed like almost all of them spent the summer vacation back in India as it seemed most of their families were still there. In your profile it says that you live in Germany now, and your post says you have family in India, the States and Europe, is India a country where the younger generations want to move out of the country? |
Sorry it's taken me ages to get respond, i've been kind of busy in the last stages of pregnancy, then having the baby... but finally have a minute to sit at the computer. Of course I'm not offended, but thanks for asking!
As for your question about doctors from India, well - let's face it, living in a country where people use the street as a toilet
isn't always great, so anyone who can get away will often try and do so. The US is seen as the land of opportunity, of milk and honey, so even visiting awards status and kudos to the person who's been there (actually, leaving India to go anywhere is pretty cool for many people, as so few can ever even dream of doing so). If you can actually LIVE in the US (and bring your family over too...) then you are generally seen as living the dream. Generally, it is the better-off, better-educated who are in a position to think about moving, either because of a scholarship, secondment, or simply through having enough money, hence the number of doctors (being a doctor is one of THE best careers there is in India) who can emigrate. There are of course many people who love their country and wouldn't want to leave even if they can afford to, many who would love to but can't afford to; with over a billion people in the country it only takes a small percentage of them to make a big impression anywhere else!
I have a lot of (Indian) family living in the US; most of them keep homes back in India, visit family in India as regularly as possible (once a year on average I guess), try and uphold Indian traditions at home, but mostly don't want to move back except maybe in retirement, when the money they have saved up would mean a king's lifestyle "back home". I personally have had more contact with Indians living in Britain than in the US and I know that in the UK it is second generation Indians who generally really assimilate and see themselves as British (Asian) first, Indian second. The "older" generation, or those who have recently arrived from India don't want to go back to work there, but want to adhere to their own culture (and language in many cases) while in Britain. My father is perhaps an exception: he professes to "never want to visit that damned country again" and hates it every time he is there, yet of course he is torn because he has a sister there and much of the rest of our extended family, so needs must...