Why [Indian] IT pros prefer US to Europe?
assureconsulting.com
Excerpt:
According to conservative estimates, 40 per cent of the startups in Silicon Valley are Indian spawned. These stories are propelling IT wannabes to head straight for the US. Despite the fact that Indian software exports to Europe, during 1999-2000, reportedly touched $920 million, no country in Europe has been able to replicate or match the success of Silicon Valley, which many Indians now refer to as the Indus Valley.
Silicon Valley is pervaded with a do or die spirit of free enterprise. The formula for success, "think big, work hard and the idea will become a reality" is not confined to prosy moral science lessons in the schoolroom. In comparison, European economies are being held hostage by their inability to shrug their image of being deeply conservative rigid, introverted, parochial and hierarchical societies, reflected in descriptive phrases like the tight upper lipped Britisher and the xenophobic German.
These are not imagined fears. Over the past one year, racist attacks against Indians in Germany have been on the rise. Juergen Ruttgers, a Christian Democrat candidate based his local election campaign on the slogan "Kinder statt Inder," which translated means "children instead of Indians" should be trained for computer jobs. Such sloganeering echoes popular sentiment and has made Germany a less attractive destination for Indians. In June this year, an Indian researcher was attacked in Lepizig by three Germans who also unleashed a ferocious dog on their victim. Not surprisingly, the hostility and the increasing incidence of racist violence has dissuaded Indians from opting for Germany. "Germans are suspicious and cold towards non-White immigrants," avers Anup Ray a marketing executive working with a software company, who has been on a posting to Germany.
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Ron, fancy a quiz?? Here you're.... How many UN blue helmets will Germany (or the entire EU for that matter) need to secure its imported computer geeks from India?
a) 1,000.
b) 10,000.
c) 100,000.
d) Only NATO can successfully tackle the issue. |
