BTW, those who think we should have this Act, do check out the letter of protest linked above. The examples it provides are excellent – a student would be criminal if his academic load dropped below the required for fulltime status by just one credit hr, any H1b person would be a criminal if they failed to send change of address within 10 days etc…

Many of the Desi Republicans i run across think only with their wallets and often do seek some sort of acceptance by “Y-T”. Of course, the impact of the social stance of the modern GOP is completely left behind. Do they not realize that they are only welcome at the Grand Ole Party as long as the checks keep coming and they keep stepping and fetching?

Most Indian Republicans i’ve run across are not unlike many black Republicans. A bit of self-hate and lack-of-melanin envy, perhaps?

I sincerely respect fiscal conservatism and individual responsibilty, but these modern GOP types go well beyond that.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/29/AR2005122901410.html

Re American Jews: Have lived with them, among them here happily and can only say it is the very, very rare one who acknowledges the colonization of Palestine (or even goes on and on about some corrupt Jew). In fact the original word was ‘colonize’ in the proposal, later changed to settler. And no I have certainly not come across many who criticise their faith or practices, they simply say they are nonobservant….

PIO

I guess technically only a person with Indian passport is NRI and others are/ can PIO

That is how I used to think and then I went to Indian Embassy website. It confused me more as they are constantly changing the definitions – also had to do with change from NDA to UPA government, and still is in flux (there are some technical, controversial issues about cutoff dates for OCI,etc) . Also, I have some friends who are American citizens who have medium-sized software businesses in India and they are broadly labeled as “NRI” maybe because they are bringing in cash to the country (till OCI – Oversees Citizenship of India is in place). In fact, there was a huge meeting in India by NDA Government – I am forgetting the details – even Kalpana Chawla was there – was about global Indians bringing in cash. There is going to be a new category – Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) and then your definittion of NRI will be the correct one. There is one more category, NRE = Non-Resident External for business purposes.

NRI and similar terms in social setting is one thing and for offical purposes means something else (and keeps changing too).

Hmmm this isn’t how I perceived it. To me a NRI (non resident Indian) is someone that is an INDIAN according to his passport/connection/citizenry but living outside of India. A PIO is just that “person of Indian origin” and that can apply to anyone who might have any Indian ancestry irrespective of how many generations ago the ancestors left India.

The reason second gen’ers oppose him, is that they can see thru’ his BS. They have a BS meter. First gen’ers dont have it when it comes to American cultural aspects.

Last November, people in Delhi were celebrating like they would for their daughter’s wedding when Bobby Jindal won. Crazy stuff……..I was in Delhi and found it very hilarious.

Its hillarious and sad. Not being able to see the ‘big picture’ is in my view has always been a weakness Indians had. Also, there is still mentality of “proving” that we are worthy. Comes from insecurity and low self-worth.