Bigger India
Indians in America: The Othered 1%
The threatened narrowing of what it means to be American, going beyond any individual, no matter how prominent, will adversely affect Indian Americans, whatever their social status or income level.
As Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur and I documented in our book, The Other One Percent: Indians in America, Indian Americans are extremely successful in material terms. They are also highly educated, and this is an important reason for their success. Their educational status is largely determined by selection processes at work in India and in the US immigration process.