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Strategies & Market Trends : New India
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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (549)10/20/2012 3:22:59 PM
From: Glenn Petersen  Read Replies (1) of 608
 
I have not yet had an opportunity to visit India, though I am working on a project that may lead to a trip within the next two to three years. My initial interest in India probably came from my father, who was stationed there in WWII helping to ship supplies over the Hump into China. It was a huge culture shock for a 140-pound young guy who had never previously ventured far from his home on the South Side of Chicago. He returned with some currency, ivory jewelry (that my mother never wore), a tapestry, a British sword and his life.

I believe that the life blood of the U.S. is its immigrant heritage and that the U.S. has greatly benefited economically and culturally from its Indian immigrants. For a long time, the U.S. was able to attract the cream of the crop from India. I can't think of any immigrant group that has contributed so much to the U.S. during the last 100 years.

The Chicago metropolitan area has a large Indian-American community and over the years I have had a fairly large number of Indian-American friends and business acquaintances (including one business partner).

I am also intrigued by the cultural and political similarities derived from our common British heritage. While the British often treated the Indian people abysmally, they also left them with a physical and political infrastructure that has served them well. Pakistan should have fared so well. While my ancestors arrived in the U.S. in the mid-1800s from Denmark and Germany, I consider myself a Brit culturally.
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