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I lived in Australia for five years,  In addition, I have lived in Japan and Canada for more than two years each. In Australia I worked closely with 12 to 15 Australians.  After I had been there 12 to 15 months, some of my Australian colleagues, after we had established a mutual trust relationship, opened up and shared with me their views of Americans.  Usually over several glasses of excellent Australian wine! Not pretty!  At least twice a year I returned to the U.S. for corporate conferences.  On each return I was invariably asked by my U.S. colleagues what Australians thought about America and a variety of related subjects.  I reminded them that I only knew a smalle number of Australians, which was not a statistical sample of the population, especially as all of them were university graduates, and therefore I could not tell them what Australians thought about Americans or anyone else for that matter. I could only tell them in a limited way what some of my Australian colleagues thougt about America, etc. Which raises a question! There are more than a billion people in India.  Unless one takes a statistical sample of the populaltion as a whole, which would be a daunting task to be sure, how can one draw any valid conclusions about people in India? As an aside, I worked with several people in Australia who had immigrated from India.  They all held master's degrees or better, and they were amongst some of the brighest, most productive people in the company. Moreover, the VP of our nuclear operations in the U.S. was from India - not born in the U.S. And the head of Pepsi was and may still be an Indian born woman. Lastly, Renu Khator, who is the Chancellor of the University of Houston, is an Indian immigrant.  She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kanpur and her graduate degrees from Purdue.
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