[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]
Recently, I applauded Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s challenge to the Biden Regime’s treasonous determination to open the border to illegals (which continues). But I noticed the paradox that Abbott was doing this from India where he travelling to express support for India legal immigration to the U.S., specially via the H-1B visa racket that imports Indian “guest workers” to immiserate American STEM graduates.
So this raises the question: How many Indian immigrants do we want? Or are we not allowed to ask?
I’ve written before about the problem posed by importing an Asian Overclass. But the lobbying of those Indian tech-placement firms has been so successful that there are now, I am told, IT departments in American companies with a majority of Indian employees.
At the executive level, we here at VDARE.com have for a couple of years now been posting on the Indian CEO virus. For example. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, an immigrant from India, has ordered subordinates to discriminate against white men in hiring.
And just a brief personal note on those IT departments: I spent thirty years working in them, as an employee or as an independent contractor. I know those places and the work that’s done in them. It’s not hard. Those guest-worker visas are not bringing in Claude Shannons and John von Neumanns. They are bringing in John Derbyshires…er, at best.
I am now going to ask what Sir Winston Churchill would have called a Naughty Question. Before asking it, though, permit me to put down a marker about Diversity—which I think is a jolly good thing.
My inspiration here is British sociologist Noah Carl:
When it comes to nation-states, “diversity is our strength” doesn’t really hold water. Or to put it less diplomatically, it’s sentimental tripe. But is there a context in which the slogan might have more veracity? Yes there is: the whole world. The more unique cultures, nations and races we have on planet earth, the better.
[Diversity is good, actually, Aporia Magazine, January 17. Link in original.]
I completely agree. Taking the world as a whole, the more human diversity it holds, the better. Diversity adds interest, opportunities for adventure, intellectual challenges, … and that’s not even to mention different cuisines.
From the point of view of a working-class English lad, for example, China is separated from the society he knows by a considerable diversity gap. I’ve been fascinated by the place since my college days; got two books (Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, and Fire from the Sun,) out of it and, um, a wife.
So yeah for global diversity!
It’s not improper to ask, though, how much diversity one single country can tolerate within itself. As Noah Carl describes at length in his article, too much human diversity in one country can be a negative.
Americans, of all people, don’t need to be told this. We, a big population of white Europeans sharing the land with a smaller, but still big population of black Africans, are reminded of it daily.
So here is my Naughty Question: How many Indians should we admit for settlement?
There is almost no upper limit to the answer that might be given. India has a lot of Indians. At some point very recently—around the end of last year, I think—India’s population became bigger than China’s, at just over 1.4 billion. And that’s with a higher fertility rate: 2.07 children per woman versus China’s advertised 1.45, which experts believe is an over- statement.
You can broaden the scope here slightly, and not impermissibly, by bringing in other South Asian nations somewhat aligned with India: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, even the Maldives if you like. Population total then: 1.84 billion. If you do the same for China, adding in Taiwan and Singapore, you get something like 1.44 billion; so that South Asia is 28 percent more populous than the Greater China Co- Prosperity Sphere.
So: a mighty lot of Indians, and even more South Asians.
And that Naughty Question again: How many should we admit for settlement?
There are negatives to be considered, most obviously Hindu-Moslem antagonism [Indian PM presides over inauguration of new Hindu temple built where mosque once sat, by Payton Davis, Deseret News, January 23, 2024] and the caste system.
Less obviously, but increasingly noticeable, there is what you might call “political capture.” Glance across the Pond to the British Isles…The “British” Isles?
U.K. Prime Minister: Rishi Sunak. London’s Mayor: Sadiq Khan. Scotland’s First Minister: Humza Yousaf. Ireland’s Prime Minister: Leo Varadkar. British Isles settlers of South Asian or part-South Asian parentage seem not to have found Wales a subject of political interest yet, but perhaps it is just a matter of time. Or perhaps they find the language too difficult.
Meanwhile, we Americans have just been obsessing over General Election primaries featuring personalities named Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley, née Nimarata Randhawa.
South Asians seem to be rather good at the Anglo-American style of politics.
But South Asian predilections have negative consequences for the host white populations.
Here’s a non-exhaustive list from VDARE.com’s 20+ years of reporting:
The Indian CEO Virus
Symptom Of Indian CEO Virus: Anti-White Discrimination At IBM Indian CEO Virus Partly Responsible For Bud Light Transgender Debacle Twitter Files Show How Dangerous “The Indian CEO Virus” Is. My Readers (American And Indian) Comment On “The Indian CEO Virus” “The Indian CEO Virus”—Is It Good For The Historic American Nation? Indian CEO Virus Infects Federal Trade Commission—Does U.S. Really Need These People? THE FULFORD FILE: Moonshot’s Vidhya Ramalingam, Daughter Of Indian Immigrants, Doesn’t Want You To Find Out About The Great Replacement Indian Medical Doctors
“Ohio” Doctor Accused Of Rape Would Be “Indian” Doctor If Victim Of Alleged Of Hate Crime Indian Doctor In Coronavirus Medical Fraud Scandal Is It “ICE Dr. Abuses Immigrants” Or “Immigrant Dr. Abuses Women In America”? (Hint: “Dr. Mahendra Amin”) Indian Diversity Superstars And The Cancer Of Dishonesty At The Heart Of American Medical Research Patels From Hell: Importing Fraud From The Indian Subcontinent Why Does America Tolerate Indian Immigrant Medical Fraud? General Negatives
Sukhetu Mehta’s Immigration as Karmic Vengeance Against The West Indian Immigrant Convicted Of Child Molesting In Pennsylvania Indian Immigrant Mass Murder, Or “Iowa Family”? MSM Doesn’t Want You To Know
Indian Immigrant Doctor Accused Of Keeping Slaves In America Chain Migration in Action: One Indian Brings 90+ Family Members Silicon Valley CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Turns Out To Be “Racist” As Well As “Sexist”—Surprising…Who?
So one more time, my Naughty Question: How many Indians should we admit for settlement, from a country whose population is currently 4.2 times ours?
Or are we not permitted to ask?
