do you feel proud or not?and why?

Question

Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN.
We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,
38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are! Indians
Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achieveme! nts of ancient India in the field of education.

4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.

7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is de! rived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now k! nown as! the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.

9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 10 6 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53.

10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst a! cademics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Pr! ofessor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.

13. Chess was invented in India.

14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India.

15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilisation).

16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.


creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)? - Vinod Dahm

third richest man on the world? - According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Azim Premji,

the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program) - Sabeer Bhatia

president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)- Arun Netravalli

new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems- Sanjay Tejwrika

Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart
-Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.

Quotes about India.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.
Mark Twain.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
French scholar Romain Rolland.

India conquered! and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih
(former Chinese ambassador to USA)

ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.
BUT, if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.
I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA.

Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN.

Answer 1

Why not say I AM PROUD TO BE HUMAN, instead? We are all human and should be all treated equally, and all "races" have contributed to the advancement of humanity.

Answer 2

Good work!
I have great respect for India, and I have enjoyed many social encounters with Indian folks, and they seem to have the best behaved children in the world, loving and non spoiled. Their family units seem to function quite well. Beautiful country and people...

Answer 3

I am really pleased to hear that you are proud of your country of origin.
Are you still an Indian or are you a US subject now ?
PS: some of your information is not precice, i.e. India invaded Bengladesh few years ago etc.
I am proud to be an Arab and also proud that my friends are all proud of their nationalities, Yet I am more proud to be a Muslim and a God worshipper with humanity as my nationality.
Thibk about that

Answer 4

I can give u the right answer,
asked my best and nearest friend an indian in India, and he said:

We indians have always been under dogs in Europe and US,
we have always faced racial discreminationsj, and therefore we have to show, they were wrong, YES WE ARE A VERY PROUD PEOPLE
" yOU CAN TAKE AN INDIAN OUT OF iNDIA, BUT never take India OUT OF INDIA

Answer 5

Everyone should feel proud about their ethnic roots, but should more importantly take pride in the fact that we are all humans and equals, regardless of what is said. Remember that...

Answer 6

at first, ^, 'sweety', Lynn is sweet. yet we don't confer with a damn farce conflict. in case you examine some damn books, you would understand Aztlan. Aztecs, or the genuine call: Mexica(Me-she-ca) have been of the 7 Nahuatlaca tribes of contemporary-day California, Nevada, Arizona,Colorado,New Mexico, Utah, and Texas which under tyranny of the genuine Aztecs. Then they each and every fled south to Mexico. The Mexica, or Aztecs as you damn whities call them, are the main worry-free blood ancestor of Mesoamerica. You Europeans can yourselves human beings or Canadians, yet you're nonetheless Europeans. And raza and metizo are purely scars of you damn b****s raping us. And via the way, you won't of gained the Mexican-American conflict till Santa Anna and the corrupted government had easily given the U.S. land, and blueprints to Mexico city. in actuality, Santa Anna became secretly conversing with the damn U.S. government. so which you men purely gained because of the fact of Santa Anna. It wasn't even purely a Mexican as against American conflict, it became Catholic as against Protestant. additionally, you probably did not get OUR land because of conflict, it became offered to you via Santa Anna after conflict. You dumbass. Viva Mexica. F**ok the Europeans who raped our mothers. And via the way, your so-reported as super presidents raped extra Mexicanos than whiskey bottles. And via the way, 'Illegals' or 'Rightful Heirs' come so they don't be afflicted by poverty that white human beings inflicted upon us. And hate to interrupt it to you, u.s. would not talk English anymore, It speaks each and every language. Oh via the way, b****, English is a mix of very just about another language. And in case you do in comparison to us some lots, why do not you get off your fat *** and bypass %. the fruit you self. You build a wall, we are able to climb, you build a moat with alligators, we are able to be on the different section with new leathery, green boots. And it is not only Mexicans, illegals come from everywhere. And actully, maximum everybody is Europeans. So why do not you bypass build a wall in the sea. Who do you think of runs this u . s . a ..

Answer 7

Whoops! I thought you meant North American Indian.

Bet you feel better for getting all that off your chest, don't you?

Answer 8

Good for you and your people