Full Version: how come indians so present in finance industry ?
There a lot of indians working at senior level in finance industry.
In VietNam? NO WAY!
QUOTE(Sideley @ Mar 20 2006, 05:26 AM) 
There a lot of indians working at senior level in finance industry.
It's the result of a convergence of trends including an influx of Indians in the Silicon Valley where a number of them discovered that they are not only strong technically but that they can also do business, recruitment of talented Indians right out of universities (I had a passing acquaintance with a couple of Indians working on Wall Street who had been recruited out of the Electrical Engineering Department of UC Berkeley) and a strong network of Indian professionals who keep each other aware of opportunities including opportunities in the homeland.
I don't think that we have a network of Vietnamese professsionals that is anywhere as extensive or as strong as the Indian network, although the Vietnamese communities in cyber space are very strong. In a sense, we come into the US as individuals, we bust our butts to succeed on our own because we don't have a support network except for family and close friends and we are still feeling our way into American society. We are isolated droplets of water that are infiltrating everywhere but not able to coalesce enough to create rivers, but you know what they say about water: water gets into everything, and destroys rocks.
The Indian professionals as a group are farther along than we are, but they and the Chinese professionals are feeling their way into American society, too. We are running hard behind them, and as far as we are concerned, the race is far from over.
QUOTE(blacklight @ Mar 20 2006, 03:10 PM)
It's the result of a convergence of trends including an influx of Indians in the Silicon Valley where a number of them discovered that they are not only strong technically but that they can also do business, recruitment of talented Indians right out of universities (I had a passing acquaintance with a couple of Indians working on Wall Street who had been recruited out of the Electrical Engineering Department of UC Berkeley) and a strong network of Indian professionals who keep each other aware of opportunities including opportunities in the homeland.
I don't think that we have a network of Vietnamese professsionals that is anywhere as extensive or as strong as the Indian network, although the Vietnamese communities in cyber space are very strong. In a sense, we come into the US as individuals, we bust our butts to succeed on our own because we don't have a support network except for family and close friends and we are still feeling our way into American society. We are isolated droplets of water that are infiltrating everywhere but not able to coalesce enough to create rivers, but you know what they say about water: water gets into everything, and destroys rocks.
The Indian professionals as a group are farther along than we are, but they and the Chinese professionals are feeling their way into American society, too. We are running hard behind them, and as far as we are concerned, the race is far from over.
How about creating a VNmese network right in your city ? Don't tell me that the VSA which seem quite omnious in american universities are just for fun.
In Europe, Vietnamese lack unity because we can't trust each other: Vietnamese crooks only aim at their VNmese compatriots, the elite just lookdown on their siblings ...
QUOTE(Sideley @ Mar 20 2006, 12:50 PM)
How about creating a VNmese network right in your city ? Don't tell me that the VSA which seem quite omnious in american universities are just for fun.
In Europe, Vietnamese lack unity because we can't trust each other: Vietnamese crooks only aim at their VNmese compatriots, the elite just lookdown on their siblings ...
I'd prefer that we take advantage of the Internet and an international network of VN professionals through a series of esites hyperlinked to each other - The VSAs could take the lead in hosting these esites. The whole point is to be able to exchange information on a 7x24x365 (or 366, if it's a leap year) basis in a semi-organized fashion regardless of geographical or political boundaries. This could be very powerful: none of us is as smart or as strong as all of us.
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