There are good people and bad people in all races. I have worked in several companies and made friends with people from all continents. However, I do feel it's hard to make friends with Indian for me after having worked with many Indian. I especially feel uncomfortable working with Indian in the same team. Many of them don't like to do the real work, but they have the tendency to take your credit as their achievement. The other thing I don't like is they are very humble in front of White people. They can listen to white people talking silently for long time even if the speech really sucks. But they would interrupt the speech frequently if the speaker is a Chinese. I'm not saying that Indian are inferior, but they are not that type of people I can have deep connection. I'll feel uncomfortable if 20% or more of people surrounding me are Indians, especially if I have to work with them closely to get grades and friendship.
While I'm not sure why this thread started in the first place, I feel I'm obliged to share a few thoughts on Tuck's international community as a whole.
For the past few years, Tuck has really stepped up to increase its efforts in diversifying its student body. One of the most obvious results was that in class of 2009, 36% of students are non-US citizens, representing 30 countries. Among the international students, Indian and Chinese students are probably the two largest student groups, and like most other Tuckies, we are both very visible and involved in almost all types of Tuck events. Because many international students choose to attend international orientation (optional), their friendship started even before the program began. Personally, many of my earliest friends at Tuck are international students, several of them are Indian.
Because of its geographical location, Tuck usually has to make more effort to ensure diversity in its candidates. Each November, Tuck will hold a Diversity Conference and invite many prospective students to visit Tuck and get a feeling of the open and inclusive environment here. Last year's conference set a new record by attracting more than 120 students, 50 alums and more then 30 companies, not to mention the 490 first-year and second-year students. I myself was lucky enough to be invovled in the organization and planning of this conference, and I'm never prouder of Tuck's effort and commitment to diversity.
Tuck prohibits any form of discrimination based on almost any category that you can think of, and really hold its students, staff and faculty to this strict standard. It's NEVER ok to make any categorical comment on another person at Tuck or the consequence WILL be severe. And I believe most other BSchools adopt similar policy.
Perhaps even more importantly, for many people, myself included, one of the major goals of MBA education is to learn to influence and exercise leadership on people of diverse cultural backgrounds. If somehow you choose to believe that someone is better or worse just because of his/her nationality, race, gender, sexual orientation and many others, in my opinion you fail as a leader.
Bottom line, remember: in US, we Chinese are minorities ourselves. If we can't show respect and inclusion to people of other cultures, how can we expect to be treated fairly?
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