Indians in Amreeka ;)

As of 2010, the second largest INDIAN DIASPORA community lives in the USA!!

In North America the term Indian has an ambiguous meaning. Historically and currently, Indian was and is commonly used to indicate Native American. If a more specific term was or is needed, American Indian and East Indian were and are commonly used. American Indian is still the most common term, although Native American can be used to refer to the Indigenous peoples of North America. East Indian is still in common use. Currently South Asian is often used instead of East Indian. While some consider it derogatory, people of Indian origin use the term ‘Desi’ to refer to the diasporic subculture of overseas Indians.

According to the American Community Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau, the Asian Indian population in the United States grew from almost 1,679,000 in 2000 to 2,570,000 in 2007: a growth rate of 53%, the highest for any Asian American community, and among the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States. Indian Americans are the third largest Asian American ethnic group, after Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans.

The U.S. states with the largest Indian American populations, in order, are California, New York, New Jersey, Texas, and Illinois.

The town of Edison, New Jersey is 17.75% Indian American — the highest percentage of any municipality in the United States.

Indians are among the largest ethnic groups legally immigrating to the United States.  A major wave of immigration to California from the region of Punjab took place in the first decade of the 20th century. Another significant wave followed in the 1950s which mainly included students and professionals. 

The elimination of immigration quotas in 1965 spurred successively larger waves of immigrants in the late 1970s and early 1980s. With the technology boom of the 1990s, the largest influx of Indians arrived between 1995 and 2000. This latter group has also caused surge in the application for various immigration benefits including applications for green card. 

Today the American Indian community stands tall with their achievements in various fields.

List of notable Indians in the USA include:

• Bobby Jindal: Governer of the state of Louisiana.
• Kalpana Chawla : Female NASA Space Shuttle astronaut, and space shuttle mission specialist.
•  Amartya Sen:Nobel Prize of Economics winner.
•  Indira Nooyi: Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo.
•  Gurbakhsh Chahal: one of the youngest millionaires
• M. ‘Night’ Shyamalan: Award winning Hollywood director
• Vinod Khosla: Silicon Valley entrepreneurship and venture capitalist.
• C.K.Pralhad: top management guru.
• Sabeer Bhatia: founder of hotmail.
• Sunita Williams: NASA astronaut.
• Norah Jones: Grammy award winner, daughter of Pandit Ravi Shankar.
• Kal Penn: Hollywood actor
•  Imran Khan: Bollywood heart-throb, Aamir Khan’s nephew.
  
  Moreover going by statistics:

• Almost 40% of all Indians in the United States have a master’s, doctorate or other professional degree, which is five times the national average
• The Information Technology industry is virtually run by Indians around the globe.
• 36% of NASA scientists are Indians: US Govt. Survey
• 34% employees at Microsoft, 28% at IBM, 17% at Intel and 13% at Xerox are Indians.
• 38% doctors in the US are Indians.

Today virtually Indians along with other immigrants run the show in America .The contribution of Indians has been lauded and acknowledged by the President of USA, Barak Hussein Obama, who has at least 10 Indian origin advisors on his advisory Panel!!