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This happens when you make your people just an idea instead of actual people. People online are slowly more conscious of identitarian issues, the abuse of migration systems, legal or illegal and then publicly mocking the host nations people is explicitly asking for hostilities to be amped up.
There are some really good ones in India, many have gone to the US, some of them frequent this forum and are upstanding people, most h1bs are not and the arguments for the H1B cap removal has led to a meltdown in Indian image at least online. There is no way I can make a nuanced argument for this without having everyone my nation call me a sepoy or self hating despite them knowing what is up.
People do not want to bring up HBD, some people did and a person even claimed that top 1 percent of upper castes is way smarter than the same percentile of euros, something that is laughably untrue but represents what you are saying in a way. You cannot allow your young to have to compete away their reproductive abilities to have a decent life. Self-identification with your people is not downstream from HBD. The only good thing here perhaps is that now HBD is not as much of a taboo anymore due to Indians using stats to dunk on people but incorrectly making it even worse.
200 million Indians will wreck any nation, it wrecked India, the aryan remnants are few and far between. Still that is not why i would self-identify with my own group, HBD is an afterthought, the same way you love your family or your wife, because they are yours.
what is funny is that you need to be a citizen to work in aerospace or the military, most h1bs are it workers, some are outstanding, most are average if they are lucky.
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