Rich Indian's Poor India

If you looked at my last post I was talking about my visit to my Doctor. Well my doctor is of Indian origin and we had a little talk about how much doctors make. I will tell you what Doctors can become millionaires in somewhere between 5-10 years. You know how many doctors in USA are of Indian origin, close to 41,000. Yes 41,000. How many you think in UK? 29,000. Well guess what they are almost all are millionaires.

OK how many millionaires are there in the world? lets say close to between 9 million to 10 million. Now close to 3 million of them reside in USA (Yeah I know u guessed it). Well now guess how many Indian American's are millionaires? 200,000. Now How many Indians in India are millionaires? 100,000. Well I could not find how many Indian's in the rest of the world are millionaires, but we know there are lot of people of Indian origin in UK, Europe, South Africa, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Dubai (I mean Middle East). So lets make a guess and say about 200,000.

As many as 4 times of Indian millionaires live outside of India than in India. WOW.

What can I say "Rich Indian's - Poor India".

Ignorance Is Bliss?

Well today somebody told me that he is glad that I am not a Doctor. It did not hit me, so i said why? then he said that all the people caught in the foiled terrorist act in London were doctor's. It still did not hit me, what's it got to do with me? Because at that time i did not know that two of them were from India. Well I am an Indian, so may be he is trying to say something else. But anyway I was not up for a discussion so i left the conversation at that.

September 11, 2001 came and gone, and now all we hear from every single person is that it changed their lives. Anything and everything from then has to do with terrorism. I don't think these same people stop and think and find out how they can make a difference. They think that the government should take care of it. Do these people try to find out more about religious extremism? no. They listen to people like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Raelly and others in the media and take their words for granted. Every time I see and hear these so called experts on terrorism, talking about stuff, i wonder why anybody needs to hear this simple stuff. Can't they get it by themselves. Being in the most advanced country in the world you assume that these people might be well informed. But I bet 90% America does not even know that India has the second most Muslim population in the world. On the other hand they might know who Paris Hilton is. Well its their choice. Democracy at least does give us enough freedom to choose what we want to know.

When i realized what the person meant, i felt the same way as somebody in India saying all the priests have sex with teenage boys after hearing about one priest doing that. Well I would have reacted similar to that person. Its his ignorance which brings him to such conclusions ain't it? or maybe he is stupid. There is an old American saying which is quite often used at my work place, "You Can't Fix Stupid", well it is true you just can't fix a stupid.

I went to see my doctor earlier today, I would say this much I am not glad that I ain't a doctor.