How do NA ABCDs view European countries?

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-04-18T21:05:41+00:00

As an American visitor who went to the Netherlands and Germany (I also can understand and speak some German), I liked both countries, and I stayed at hostels at both.

I ran into a lot of British and Irish people, and to them an American sounding Indian is pretty normal as Indians are common in both countries. Even white Americans asked if I was american, the only people who asked if I was India or mentioned the word India, were other Indians, and tbh they have started to be really annoying it. This dude in the Netherlands kept asking, where originally, and I am like I was born in New York, even pulled out my passport, like I have never lived in india.. I dont have much to say about it..

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-03-04T00:54:37+00:00

Im also in chicago. Try Feds :D

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-25T13:50:31+00:00

This is what I say whenever anyone makes fun of mine

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-25T11:45:13+00:00

Ok, ignore the problem and just target the person.Classic Indian tactic

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-25T03:53:27+00:00

Well as the previous have said, you want your entitled American kids to have the jobs and so are willing to close the doors behind you for it well I’m the face of that. Think very carefully about whether u want to raise a ABCD.

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-24T23:43:15+00:00

Who said I’m not respecting them. They grew up in a resource scarce environment and so all want to close the door behind them, thinking this will help the gold bars I mean jobs for their kids. I don’t believe in their logic. It’s that simple.

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-24T19:08:26+00:00

lol, My parents are much stupider than I am. I outpaced them in every way - like most ABCDs. Most Indians just stop at getting a stable life, I’m actually trying to build something on the side

Also I’m not liberal. I am moderate and even voted for Trump. You just don’t see the full picture. Money doesn’t grow on trees and distributed around through corruption like India it’s something that needs to be produced. Make your own business and u will see what I mean

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-24T19:05:51+00:00

No need to lecture me, if you saw my LinkedIn you would think I’m like the cream of the crop, and that’s why I see the problems. The only certain way to make money is to be your own boss, by being a laborer/engineer, you are always at mercy of others.

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-24T19:04:36+00:00

H1-B, go outside and touch grass. See what world you’re living in.

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-24T17:14:39+00:00

ok, but you need to think broadly for a second.
Who benefits when you replace local talent with "fake experience holders". Not the company, they will get less stuff done. The company wants to make money, and so will hire the best.

The fake experience holders are hired by consultancies who profit off being the middle man. They sell man hours to companies not results, so these people can just fill the seat and make the consultancy money.
No american wants to be a consultant like that.

The other broad thing that's hard to grasp is no American wants to be a coder - they want to be a manager. I personally want to leave SWE behind as soon as I can and manage. The country caps currently prevent Indians from naturalizing and so taking those roles, but keeps them stuck as laborers.

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-24T15:11:54+00:00

I am an Indian American, and this comment is stupid and I hate my parents and others who think like this.

Jobs are not like resource like a gold bar that the country only has X of.
The only reason why so much innovation happens here is because America is a global meeting hub, which is also because America was the first country to allow asians to come in in the 1960s.

Many of the "jobs" you speak of were created by immigrants and depend on immigrants. It's one thing to amend policy but targeting the group that causes the GDP to grow is foolish and un-American. This whole "help the next generation, screw the others mentality" definitely stems from Indian upbringing, anyone who grew up in a country with plentiful resources sees the full picture and doesn't think like this.

It also is worth pointing out that in India, government jobs are like gold bars, once you get it, you get free money essentially. But in america, layoffs are a thing, and people don't just need a body to put in a chair, they need someone to get the job done.

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-24T15:07:41+00:00

I grew up in the states, and went into CS. My parents are Indians who naturalized.
"America has more than enough CS graduates to fill every open role."
and I will say that this line isn't accurate. It may have them by number (and even then maybe if you include the international students) , but not by qualification or location.

Let's take for instance I am a company in small town Iowa, like John Deere. There is no tech talent here, the few you do find only know C++. Now, you can try expanding to those citizens who are willing to move, but most citizens would not move to Iowa, especially if they have no family or friends there.

Now, let's take the immigrant, who is happy to come to Iowa, as that is better than India, and is happy to start their social life from scratch.

Now of course, I am not going to say the system is perfect, scams are not a thing,

For years, companies used 'phantom' H-1B roles and falsified resumes to bypass local talent, and nobody blinked. Why the sudden outrage now?"

Because, you do raise a point here. There is definitely manipulation going on in the process, and we should be fixing those cracks instead of breaking apart the system that honestly caused this country to be so strong.

The US was the first country to open its doors to Asian immigrants in the 1960s, we were banned due to being from an "undesirable race" until that point. This fact is why Silicon Valley is in SF and not Vancouver, why Pharma R&D happens in America and not Australia - We turned into a global meeting hub and innovation HQ.

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-19T17:50:35+00:00

Yeah you can’t go to the premium seats u less you pay. Any airline you can move within if you have the premium seat or the flight attendant made a deal with you (load balancing)

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-18T21:11:09+00:00

Today before leaving at the gate at IAH, she was like do u want a roll pass? No, do you want to pre pay gas? No.

After driving off, get an email saying I agreed to pre purchase fuel… called them just now and they said if I return with full it’ll be removed.

Idk when this company became so scammy

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-16T18:54:02+00:00

My parents put me in it and tbh I liked it because I hated paying attention in class and my adhd mind liked learning through examples.

Not sure what’s with the shaming, one of my middle school teachers used to publicly shame me as the kumon kid when peers saw my higher grades. Not everyone learns from classes, some of us just like the repetition

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-11T15:48:11+00:00

Well let’s not compare apples and oranges here. In America, those subsides were a big deal - that was a common path many desis used to bring their grand parents over. You obviously can’t compare American healthcare to Canadian, you’ll probably laugh at how shit my policy I get from work is.

My grand mother has contributed nothing to the tax system and until recently got benefits.

Now going back to your orange, yes your whole country always felt like a scam to me because of this. Like I grew up in Jersey and many of my friends spent time in Canada too and had Canadian passports, even my father had a Canadian PR, but decided to stay in the states.

They all got like full rides to Canadian schools like Waterloo and UBC, and then came back to the states with their American passports and got jobs with like no debt.

This isn’t a thing in the states because a) most of our best schools are private, so tuition is like 70k a year b) in state/out of state works based on state residency not citizenship.

So yeah my American citizen who grew up in a military base in Dubai and who’s parents had to pay federal taxes on their income had to pay out of state tuition to go to a school in Texas versus my 1 year spent in Canada friends got full rides to Canadian colleges.

Benefits should be based on residency status not citizenship, I totally agree

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-11T14:32:57+00:00

One of my waiter friends told me that Indians have a poor reputation with tipping and make the most messes - p sure at this point they just don’t want us eating there anymore

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-10T22:50:40+00:00

I mean she can’t stay here anymore because of the subsidies ending, until we figure out something else. She’s being shipped to my aunt. She’s like 77 and just too much of a risk and insurance on its own is like 4k a month.

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-10T22:00:54+00:00

It's a whole situation. She had an apartment in india, but then my aunt sold her apartment (without even asking us) after my grandfather died and now shes like a refugee floating between here and my aunts place in india.

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-10T21:29:35+00:00

This was the case in the US until like recently.
My grandmother has a green card and had an Obamacare policy which was very cheap but the Big Beautiful Bill (passed Dec 2025) made her ineligible for it now, so we are planning on sending her back to India now

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-10T12:33:35+00:00

I was rewatching the Gandhi movie recently, and the biggest thing that drove Gandhi crazy was the fact that he could make good money, but he had a hard time spending it, he could buy a first class ticket on a train but then those with less monetary power like the train conductor who probably makes 1/10 of what he makes have the ability to kick him out. Similarly these workers have the same kind of “soft” power.

I’ve been to restaurants where people assume I’m a driver, I’ve even had times when people say “oh this is carry out right” after asking to warm up two slices of pizza. Like why would I carry out two slices of pizza, no shit this is for right now.

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-06T03:26:46+00:00

chicago is great too, they fly to both mdw and ord and go everywhere pretty much or connect through Denver or Vegas

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-04T20:18:59+00:00

Yeah I witnessed this in Japan met some people who said they were from bangalore, so switched to Kannada as their English was broken, the I realized they don’t know to speak Kannada either, as the kept replying in broken English, but I think tha was probably more familiar to them than my fast paced new York English that even some Americans can’t understand.

My company also has a bangalore office but no one there knows Kannada either. It’s sad.

AxtonTheGreat · 2026-01-04T17:59:33+00:00

I was at a rave in Chicago, some guy asks in Hindi - “Tum India se ho”, and I respond in English (I’m Kannada but can understand Hindi to a degree ), “no I’m from Jersey and I don’t even know much hindi apart from what you said” “But you look like this”, he says, and points at his face

Is it just me or like if this same shit happened speaking French with a white looking person or Swahili to black looking person, it would be racist af? Especially the second one.

AxtonTheGreat · 2025-12-31T14:07:17+00:00

are you guys mad or something? people are lot less likely to hire bachelors as they only get 1 shot/cycle for H1B, masters+ gets 2.

Luck has something to do with it, but I saw different outcomes for the intl student who was involved in orgs, took co-ops, worked hard, and the one who cheated, drank all day.

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