To Indians who cry out loud, boast and complain! Just stop it right away for good!
I am an Indian and I am grateful to US for allowing me and my fellow nationals to come into US for working and enjoying what this great country has to offer!
To all Indians - Stop making unnecessary posts like you are the best at tech or India is the best or such non sense. It just increases prejudices against Indians.
Mind you western countries and a lot of other countries are far more advanced in innovation and have been a pioneer in a lot of sectors than India - where as India is still a developing country and it clearly lacks in innovation, engineering, quality of life and education but India has been changing for good but not aggressively though. I wish India joins the league of these developed countries sooner than later like every citizen of the country does!
Rather complaining and boasting you and our country in an another soil just pick positive things, respect peers and enjoy what USA has to offer with some gratitude to it's welcoming immigration policies during your stay than making noise!
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Treat us with the sympathy we deserve. That's all. Somehow Chinese are put in the same group as Indians when defining your 'Asian' category that you label as 'privileged', which completely masks the horrible things my ancestors went through until 1947 (yes, until pretty recently).
I saw in another post that entry level developer makes 20k USD in India. It is a lot of money in a country where GDP per capita is $2000, and half of the population live under 2 dollars a day. This may explain where their pride is from.
Frankly speaking, India is not on the right track. Everyone who expects bright future of India will be disappointed. Africa has 1 billion people and 2 trillion dollar GDP. India has 1 billion people and two trillion GDP as well. Build a 4 trillion dollar GDP economy first before considering you are not underperforming.
If you click this link, you will see 83% Indian people live under 5.5 dollar (PPP, so it is pretty much the same as 2 dollars in nominal dollars) a day. And you said India has hundreds of millions of middle class, so probably 5.5 dollars a day is the new bar?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentage_of_population_living_in_poverty
But I agree with you that India is probably safer to live than South Africa. But safety isn’t really an economic measurement.
That's USD $3,991.35 ~4k - or 4000/(365*4) = $2.74 dollars a day per person or around $8-11/day in PPP adjusted terms. India's PPP ratio is around 3-4. I'd consider that the borderline for middle class - it's a hard life, but not one in which you are worried about food or shelter or sending kids to college.
GDP per capita has gone up around 50% nominal since the 2015 (when your data is from) and around 30% in PPP terms. The ~20% above $5.5/capita are probably making >$8-10 PPP/day now - that's 270 million people and includes every Indian you've ever met.
In wealth rather than income terms - around 22% of indians have wealth greater than $10k USD. Which is around $35-40k when adjusted for PPP. That puts them above the bottom 35% of Americans - the income and wealth numbers seem to match up roughly, since most wealth in India is new. 0.22*1.35B = 297 million people living middle class lifestyles compared to 231 million (330 * 0.7) in the US.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-personal-wealth-richest-millionaires-report-6080333/
https://dqydj.com/net-worth-brackets-wealth-brackets-one-percent/
Note, however, that India's wealth distribution is better than SA's - indeed compared to most of Africa for a variety of reasons.
https://worldpoverty.io/map
Currently 4% of Indians live in extreme poverty (1.9 PPP line) vs 28% of South Africans. Despite SA having 50% higher GDP per capita PPP and and 200% higher GDP per capita nominal. Hell, it's inequality adjusted HDI (0.463) is LESS than India's (0.477).
http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/IHDI
Fun fact, the UN traditionally bases its international extreme poverty line in PPP terms on India's domestic poverty line and has done so for decades.
https://www.immihelp.com/greencard-sponsors/search-results?fiscalYear=2015&countryOfCitizenship=Iran&status=Certified%2CCertified+Withdrawn%2CCertified-expired%2CDenied%2COthers%2CWithdrawn&page=1&rows=10&sortField=yearlyWage&sortingOrder=asc
This is from 2015, so most people in this list probably already have GCs in hand because they are not from India. These profiles (janitors, cleaners, pizza delivery) have a GC because their biggest merit is that they are not from India.
Meanwhile, an Indian software engineer who applied in 2011 under the EB2 category is still waiting.