Indo-Americans and the US melting pot.
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Since large-scale immigration from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka began in the 1960s, South Asians have generally been outsiders in American institutions: in politics, in the Fortune 500 and in the media. Ten years ago, perhaps the most well-known South Asian immigrant businessman was Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the convenience store proprietor of The Simpsons. As recently as five years ago, then-Sen. Joe Biden stuck his foot in his mouth when noting: "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
But that image of South Asians has changed rapidly in the past several years. In politics, second-generation Indian-American immigrants Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley have won races for governor in Louisiana (2007) and South Carolina (2010), respectively. Aziz Ansari, a graduate of New York University's Stern School of Business and the son of Indian immigrants, plays a character on NBC's Parks and Recreation who bears the distinctly non-South Asian name of Tom Haverford. Actor Kal Penn, the son of Indian immigrants, has moved from the Harold and Kumar franchise, the movie The Namesake and the TV show House to the White House. In the corporate world, Indra Nooyi, who came to the U.S. from India to attend graduate school at Yale, was promoted in 2006 to CEO of the iconic American brand Pepsico. The following year Vikram Pandit was named CEO of Citi.
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