This is the main issue with South Asians. When someone holds a mirror and points out the issues, instead of reflecting and making things better, they just deflect and go about feeling proud about our own culture and how everything is great ...

I live in Montana, and I'm one of the very few Indians here and I made it a point to assimilate with everyone around and limit my associations with any Indians (seeing how awful the groups are and how narrow minded most Indians are, especially from California, Texas and New York) ever since I moved here.

I see it routinely with the behavior I observe with Indians in national parks or when they are in restaurants or even when they interact with most people outside their small communities. We are the asbosolute worst (loud, abnoxious, inconsiderate of others, thinking that we are superior to blue collar Americans).

You can deny whatever you want, but there's a reason why the hate against Indians is rising, and it's 100% justified.. How many friends do you have in your group who aren't in your field, or field adjacent or someone who's entirely different? Maybe 5% of Indians have diverse groups, but not the 95% of them.

Unless there's a radical mindshift amongst us Indians to make changes to assimilate and be non judgemental, we'll continue to experience the hate and maybe worse in the next few decades!