Maybe it's some sort of confirmation bias, but it seems like there's a lot of prominent right wing people of Indian ancestry (Vivek Ramaswamy, Dinesh D'Souza, Nikki Haley). Is it confirmation bias or is this a real thing? If the latter, what is driving it other than US immigration policies excluding leftists?

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[–] Barx@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

The Indian immigrants you're exposed to via these channels are petty bourgeois or PMC climbers and often casteist. Or their children. If you look at everyone in these same positions who aren't Indian immigrants or their children, you will find a very similar story.

One part of this is that in the US, to immigrate from India it is more common to do so via education, either by already being educated or by going to the US for education and then staying. This will already reflect class and caste biases, the ability to have sufficient base education and any supplementary funding to maintain your education abroad.