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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (173567)	3/14/2003 1:24:33 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"Well we know one thing- Indian entrepreneurs who come to the USA sometimes beat us at our own game. Japanese entrepreneurs never were able to achieve this. Silicon Valley is swarming with indian CEOs, VCs and VPs. As you know the analyst ranks for intel's sector are dominated by indians currently. " Sony set up its main t.v. set factory for Trinitrons in San Diego about 30 years ago. I'd call this a pretty good example of the Japanese doing well on U.S. turf. And they innovated out of this facility, not just copying. (Another leader in televisions and monitors is Mitsubishi. For many years their name was not seen on U.S.-sold televisions. But anyone looking at t.v.s during the 1980s remembers the quality of "MGA" televisions, including the first large 35-inch models. MGA stood for Mitsubishi Group of America, and much of the engineering was done in the U.S. by Japanese and American engineers). Also in San Diego, presumably by coincidence, is Kyocera (Kyoto Ceramics), now a diversified maker of cellphones, consumer electronics, and semiconductor equipment. Nikon and Canon have extensive U.S. facilities and dominate in lithography and optics in general. More Japanese companies have located and done good work here in the U.S. than Indian companies have. True enough, more individual _immigrants_ from India have arrived here, compared to from Japan. As for relative numbers of immigrants from India vs. Japan, this basically follows the prevailing immigration patterns: relatively few immigrants from Japan, especially in the past 75 years. Most Indian students learn English (the lingua franca of India), which helps them to assimilate in the U.S And probably the most important reason for the pattern follows from the economic conditions in India, where the dream of most I.I.T. graduates is to get a job in the U.S.--and very few ever return to India to stay. As for the race of the leading Intel analysts, Amy tells us it's a firable offense to make racial comments (unless one is quoting Jesse Jackson or Niggers with Attitude). --Tim May