Riding The Tiger: Why The Anglosphere Should Be Wary of India
This lengthy essay tackles migration, geopolitics, and culture. It focuses on incompatibility between Indian society and Western Anglosphere culture. The essay concludes with a warning that Western nations are sleep-walking into a disaster, and must reconsider their approach to mass immigration. Excerpts follow:
In the four years from 2021 to 2024, more than 1 million Indians immigrated to Britain. In Canada, Indian immigration has surged 326% over the past decade; south of the border, in the United States, Indians make up the second-largest foreign-born population... In both Australia and New Zealand, Indians now comprise the single largest source of migration.
... Over the past few decades, India’s population has exploded, with nearly 400 million people added to the country’s population since the millennium...
Underemployment is also a problem... The Indian Government is therefore incentivised to push foreign states to take India’s unemployed graduates who will, in turn, support the Indian economy through remittances...
The interface between the Anglosphere and insurgent India will be one of the defining stories of the 21st century... Failure to address the shortfalls of the current H-1B visa route, which has effectively turned into a channel for India’s surplus graduate population, could see the American tech sector hampered by nepotism and anti-competitive practices...
Put simply, the core societal unit of the Anglophone world is the individual, not the clan... Indian society is clannish, nepotistic, and prone to fraud...
In zero-sum cultures, "getting ahead" is a more important virtue than impersonal honesty...
In short, the presumed cultural similarities between the Anglophone middle class and the Indian middle class are largely superficial...
Given the preponderance of fraud, nepotism, and low-trust behaviour in Indian society, should we really welcome a ‘culture transplant’ from India?...
The canary in the coal mine: Indian immigration to Canada...
Hindutva and H-1Bs: Indian immigration to the United States
If, as Musk insists, America needs to import "the top 0.1% of engineering talent", then the O-1 visa is the route through which these genius-level contributors can come to America...
Given that the US residency of H-1B visa holders is tied to a single company, firms are incentivised to hire H-1B workers over US citizens - while a US citizen is able to move jobs in pursuit of better pay or conditions, H-1B workers are not. This scheme effectively allows employers to hold migrant workers hostage, employing them in entry-level and mid-level roles at the expense of domestic US talent...
... Cognizant’s vice-president responsible for the company’s talent supply chain, has admitted that H-1B visa workers are not more skilled than US workers...
In fact, in many ways, Indians are amongst the most left-wing voter groups in the United States...
In order to win with Indian voters, the American right will need to compromise on core principles, around freedom of speech, immigration, and geopolitical independence. This trade-off is not worth making...