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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (187147)	4/28/2022 10:26:33 PM
From: arun gera	3 Recommendations Recommended By gg cox Julius Wong Secret_Agent_Man Respond to of 217823

<Ashkenazis are bred from a big area from north west Africa, across to Morocco or thereabouts, and over to northwest India, in a smallish region. As you probably know, there are phenomenally talented individuals from that north west India area - prodigy types, who can do maths upside down and inside out and generally exhibit cognitive abilities that regular humans don't have.> It is DNA as well as culture. Knowledge workers have an edge. I believe that jews in Europe were prevented from owning land or farming, so culturally, they needed to rely on specializing in knowledge based professions and settling in cities.. And then that would be encouraged in their next generation. In India, the brahmins (priest class) had an edge in the modern world as they were always knowledge centric (Saraswati is their goddess britannica.com However, education is now spreading into all classes in India. And the reaction of knowledge with millions of young minds could produce magic. There may be that super DNA still lying undiscovered. -Arun

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (187147)	4/28/2022 10:41:19 PM
From: arun gera	Respond to of 217823

<Fortunately for India, the young people [way back in 1997, according to what we were told in India by a young bloke], told the dopey old geezers to get lost with their idea of dumping english and going hindi as lingua franca. Young people understood that their ticket to the future was global and lingua franca [an excellent english word, HiJacked into the lingua franca]. The boss of Google, Microsoft etc won't be somebody who is not highly capable in english, or american in this case.> Before 1997 there were hardly any knowledge-based jobs in India other than teaching. Then some indian IT companies went international. The real turnaround came around 2004, when Business Process Outsourcing became big and multi-nationals started hiring in tens of thousands every year. Then the silicon valley companies and the rest followed. So now, India has a very sophisticated and large workforce in IT and engineering. Meanwhile, India became a consumer economy - media, telecommunications, banking, finance, hospitals, and airlines are not far behind any in the first world - not original but with similar business processes and service levels. -Arun

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (187147)	4/28/2022 10:49:07 PM
From: arun gera	1 Recommendation Recommended By Maurice Winn Respond to of 217823

<I have thought since our visit that living in Bangalore would be a really good place. Just the mangoes, coffee, and cashew nuts would be worth it. It was just getting going in 1997. I guess it has gone ahead in leaps and strides since then.> Some of that old Bangalore is still there, but it is a much bigger urban area now - about 12 million population now from about 5 million in 1997. Traffic is quite horrible. There are more Software Technology parks than parks. Still the soil is fertile and the climate is great. -Arun