My family moved to the US when I was 8, but by the time I turned 20, my dad was still on an H1B (waiting to get processed for a green card).
Once I turned 21, I would age out as his dependent, despite the fact that I basically grew up in the US.
I thought I'd have to become a code monkey after college, and even that only if I was lucky enough to win the H1B lottery.
Otherwise, back to India.
I had become a huge fan of @paulg's essays in college. I was actually depressed that my desire to start a startup or do something entrepreneurial was basically hopeless.
Working on the promising podcast I was doing as a side project? A beyond impossible pipe dream.
Even after 9 years, my dad wasn't able to get a green card - and the lines were only getting longer over time. I figured I'd be an old man before I could quit some FANG job and build my own thing.
By some miracle, COVID travel restrictions cleared out the lines, and I got my green card literally months before I would have aged out.
If not for this unbelievable coincidence, I would not be hosting the podcast.
In the best case, I would be shifting pixels around in the 3rd sub-sub-menu of some big tech software.
I'm incredibly grateful I made it through.
But it's unconscionable that we put the kids of high skilled immigrants through all this anxiety, and in many cases make them repeat the nerve-racking indentured life trajectory that they had to watch their parents go through.
Chinese flag true meaning:
Big star represents the Japan-origin fair high caste shi while the surrounding 4 small stars represent the dark native low-castes
This symbolises that low caste lives revolve around the high-caste shi
Chinese caste system is rly strict 😭🥀
It took just 10-12 indian with few thousand followers to destroy year old china’s PR
Indian literally cooked Chinese on twitter, and meltdown is just epic 🤣🔥
Chinese flag true meaning:
Big star represents the Japan-origin fair high caste shi while the surrounding 4 small stars represent the dark native low-castes
This symbolises that low caste lives revolve around the high-caste shi
Chinese caste system is rly strict 😭🥀
@MichaelRainhard@ibnilor The script you are displaying so proudly is a symbol of your subjugation. We jeets civilized you savages and gave you language, script and culture. You don’t even have an internet slur. So irrelevant.
Texas Hispanics went from 2.99 million in 1980 to roughly 14 MILLION!! today.
That’s from 20% of Texas to 41% more than QUADRUPLING!! in absolute population and becoming the largest demographic bloc in the state.
Indians in Texas are roughly 1.5% of the state.
So a Hispanic American calling Indians “invaders” in Texas is peak hypocrisy.
Your own demographic went from one-fifth of Texas to the largest group in the state.
But you want to fearmonger over Indians being a tiny sliver of Texas?
This was never about “demographic change.”
It was anti-Indian resentment dressed up as statistics but we CAUGHT YOUR LOW IQ grift.
Dear fellow Indians.
In last 3-4 days, I have learnt about China more than I did in all those chinese history articles on wikipedia.
A big thanks.
#ChinaCasteSystem