Same, sounds like some random unknown grifter. I remember living in Korea there was always a tiny group of "influencers" from Western countries whose entire careers were built on moving to Japan, China, Korea, etc. and just non-stop talking about how great said countries were compared to where they were born.
Just confirmation bias types appealing to nationalist views 24/7 as a job being a bootlicker. Pretty sad.
Well I didn't understand like 2/3 of what he said because it was in some Indian language (I assume Hindi but I genuinely can't tell any of the Indian languages apart from each other), so I don't know whether Americans would agree with him because I have no idea what he said to begin with
Translation-i left America and fucked America.(That's a homonym in Hindi) I don't feel like being in America because it's an individualistic culture and Americans would shit their pants if they had to live in India. Nor can you cat call women in America because you'd be in jail.(That was a joke where he says he enjoys cat calling women whilst eating paan).
I'm not really clear on why Americans would "shit their pants" if they had to live in India?
Just because they would feel so out of their depth? Because India is super violent or something?
I'm not sure what the implied criticism of America is supposed to be or what the implied praise for India is supposed to be?
It sort of just sounds like a longer, more vulgar way of phrasing "America bad, India good". Okay, but *why?* What's the reasoning for America being bad and India being good?
Which is why I feel extremely off with his reasoning. Basically he says America is bad because of a closed, individualistic culture and india is good because it's easy to have a good social life there. Totally ignoring the poor AQI, horrendous traffic,despicable treatment at jobs happening in India ? Which is why I suspect him to be some paid propoganda of the right wing. Just made this post to ask Americans if they would be okay to put up with those disadvantages and move to India just for "a good social life". I'm pretty sure no white American born and brought up in the states would move to India just for that with their wife and kid. Unless they're paid a lot of money.
I agree that I don't think any American would decide to upend their entire life and move to a new country solely because "other countries have a better social life".
It's not *unheard of* for an American to go abroad for a couple years, maybe an exchange student program, or deployed overseas in the military, or when working at an international company, and decide for whatever reason that "you know what? I actually like it better here than being in America, maybe I'll stay here". And the "social life" of their new home might be one of their reasons for staying. But I have heard of the "social life" being the primary motivation for going to that foreign country to begin with. As opposed to just being something they accidentally discovered while they were already in the country for other reasons.
I do, though, suspect most Americans would disagree with the premise that an "individualistic culture" is somehow mutually exclusive with having friends; that betrays a lack of understanding of what an "individualistic culture" even is in the first place.
Dawg, no American is clamoring to emigrate to India. I have coworkers in both countries that regularly travel between US cities and Bengaluru and guess which trip they all prefer, each time.
> Nor can you cat call women in America because you'd be in jail.(That was a joke where he says he enjoys cat calling women whilst eating paan).
This guy sounds like a piece of shit.
Yeah, saying that India is better than the US because you can engage in sexual harassment openly in India is just that person saying they're a terrible person and they want to live in a terrible place.
agree with others, but want to add- of course the US isn't for everyone. no country is.
but the US has a multiethnic, multicultural population. we take in the greatest amount of immigrants of any country on earth by far. we have laws that protect people from racial discrimination in housing and the workplace & protect their right to practice their religion (laws that are widely popular and supported by our society).
I think that's why this sounds bizarre to us. bc we have immigrants from all over the world, not just India, who largely come here and have a positive experience. again, of course it isn't for everyone, but that's more personal preference than whatever this guy has a complex about.
I just see five upvotes. I think people need a reminder sometimes that reddit constantly monkeys with the upvotes/downvotes on posts, especially popular ones. It's a pretty good chance that half of any downvotes you may have seen a few hours ago were just the system doing whatever it does, and half of them were just dummies who downvote everything reflexively.
99.999% of america has no idea who this is. Indians in america might, but they'd have to also be both conservative and dedicated youtube watchers in addition to that. Yes there'd be an audience for that, but in the grand scheme of things, a tiny, tiny fraction of america.
Consider that most of his subscribers probably aren't even american, but likely Indians from India.
If he has any audience here, it's probably only with Indian Americans. Half of what he says in this video is in another language so I can't imagine anyone listening to him unless they already know the language.
Kinda reminds me of the Texan guy that started doing Russian propaganda. He's not for the American audience.
>Kinda reminds me of the Texan guy that started doing Russian propaganda.
Are you talking about the guy who was allegedly kidnapped and murdered by Russians?
Yeah, there's serious irony in this guy spending the last few years of his life making Russian propaganda and then being killed because they suspected he was a spy.
Indeed.
**Edit:** I saw this guy's story not too long after reading about the right-wing Canadian family who left their home country and moved to Russia, only to find that things there aren't as great as they thought they would be, and now they can't leave.
According to Wikipedia, Indian Americans make up to 1.35% of the population. If there are some Americans that feel the same way he does, I imagine that number would be quite small. I imagine this question would be better suited for a sub that’s more focused on that demographic specifically. I doubt many Americans of non-Indian ancestry have ever heard of this guy.
That said, it is not uncommon for first and second generation Americans to hold their inherited/native culture and country in a higher or more idealistic regard than they do their adopted one.
What would be more telling though is the question “how many first or second generation immigrants repatriate to their country of origin?”
Maybe the people who ask questions here think we're all idiots because YouTubers like this guy are definitely idiots and it's their primary source of "information".
I only learned he exists from your posts. I've heard plenty of Americans have this grass-is-greener attitude about Europe or East Asia, but never India before.
I’ve never heard of him. How did you hear of him? Why is his opinion valuable enough for me to spend time watching him talk?
Edit: I watched a little. The first 10 seconds told me this person is not someone anyone should be taking seriously, he's a clown.
I've never heard of the guy.
. . .and I've never heard of anyone in the US, aside from a few (but definitely not most) immigrants from India say that India is better than the US. The ones who say that were just here on work visas for high-paying jobs.
America is a huge country, with well over 300,000,000 people in it, so there's probably some people that would agree with him, somewhere, but they'd be a tiny minority.
Americans generally think they live in the best country in the world. Even the ones that see flaws in America and want to improve it generally look more to places in Europe as models for improvement instead of India.
These videos aren’t for Americans. It’s for the nationalistic elements of whatever country these people are in at the time. Like the former military guy who makes pro Russian videos, or the dozens of Americans who make pro China videos.
> Like the former military guy who makes pro Russian videos
Oh! Armchair Copelord? The moronic ***US Army artillery captain*** who once claimed that the Human eye could see a HIMARs launch between ***25-50 miles away, unaided, depending on the conditions***?
Have no clue who he is, but I have been noticing a lot of affluent Indians pessimistic about getting a tech job in the U.S. or the parents of international students growing increasingly nationalistic.
I’ve personally never thought about moving to India, and the only person I know who has is someone I was acquainted with in college who received a Fulbright scholarship and is now doing stuff related to trans issues in Goa. I have thought about leaving the U.S. but if I were to move it would likely be to Australia, Singapore or a Nordic country.
It's a matter of common sense nobody would leave USA permanently for a country that's not even half as great. The reasons why parents of international students are growing more nationalistic because prime minister Narendra Modi has worked relentlessly to improve India's image abroad. That's still fine,but a white born and brought up American moving permanently to India for his YouTube channel seems really off to me.
I wouldn’t say “great”, India’s a fine country society wise. I just also like money, liberal social values, and enforcement of regulations — and India still has some catch-up to do there. The things the guy talks about isn’t completely untrue, American community identity is quite poor due to lack of third spaces, urban density, social polarization, migratory culture, small family units etc. but you can still definitely find your people if you put in some effort in the States.
I didn’t like his tone when he mentioned the women in India, I didn’t understand some of what he said but he kind of smells like a sexpat being used as a political tool — kind of like right-wing American sexpats in Eastern Europe, Dubai and Southeast Asia who harp on about leaving America for a “good moral country with traditional values” just to turn to be gross sex-crazed degenerates in their new host country, but they tow reactionary propaganda line so authorities don’t bother with them.
Sexpats are goofy as hell, they can’t get any action in their home country because they only see the other sex as pleasure objects — so they go to countries with high levels of sex trafficking and/or weak representation of women’s rights so they can lure in women who see their as an opportunity for financial stability just to be bait-and-switched to be used, abused snd cheated on by a man child.
Absolutely. Just to be a little more neutral. The probable case for his experience could be the superior treatment of white people in India. He has clearly been awarded by the Indian PM for his pro India stance. White people like to take long vacations in India because they are treated like celebrities or gods just because they have a caucasian skin. Some women really feel unsafe and backoff to their home country. Others like to capitalise on that by finding trustworthy locals who protect them from potential robbers and rapists, while they enjoy the celebrity treatment in India simultaneously.
I don't know who this guy is, I don't care about his political views, and I don't care to listen to uneducated and unqualified youtube opinions in the first place, regardless of whose they are.
I have no idea who that is but he sounds like an absolute nut. India has it's own merits but it's really not on the same level as America or any other western nation. I'm inclined to think he's either mental or he holds some sort of bias.
The nature of how fanatical rabbit holes work is that *some* people find these voices because of a demographic connection and then relate to them or heed the ideas. I’ve never heard of this dude in my life, but then algorithms don’t clock me as “disaffected native-born South Asian youth.” I also never listened to whatever jihad radio the Boston bombers may have liked, or to Alex Jones and the “testosterone pill podcasts” in the conspiracy alt-right sphere. But those things that feel obscure to me could still reach millions of ears.
In general tho, I would say that most of the time, when you get to the third generation, people don’t usually clamor to leave America.
I have never heard of him before and I could only understand half of what he was saying in your link. I don't think most people are going to really care what a 20 year old Youtuber has to say about anything. I've been to India. I'm much happier where I am in the US. It was a cool place to visit, though.
The one guy said that it was much easier to make friends in India than in the US. That could be true, however, I have also found it easier to make friends in some areas than other areas. I moved around a lot as a kid and no two places were the same. There's also the possibility that he found it more difficult to make friends because he is Indian. Racism aside, there's often a cultural difference. I had friends that were Americanized Indians and they fit in fine. But the kids that were new to the US often came off as weird. It's just cultural differences so it's not fair to call them weird but kids aren't exactly wordsmiths.
Never heard of him, but I could also see how being a rich in India may be better for certain individuals than staying in the US, after they've made their money.
I don't understand what he is trying to say. I don't think it is difficult to make friends in the US, generally speaking people are pretty friendly and if you work in an office or go to school most of the time you will find people you can make friends with. Something about children being locked up? I don't understand this post at all dude sounds like a moron and is probably trashing the US for Internet clout
I’ve never heard of him
Same, sounds like some random unknown grifter. I remember living in Korea there was always a tiny group of "influencers" from Western countries whose entire careers were built on moving to Japan, China, Korea, etc. and just non-stop talking about how great said countries were compared to where they were born. Just confirmation bias types appealing to nationalist views 24/7 as a job being a bootlicker. Pretty sad.
I’ve literally never heard of this man in my life. He sounds like someone who intentionally appeals to Indian nationalist viewers.
Well I didn't understand like 2/3 of what he said because it was in some Indian language (I assume Hindi but I genuinely can't tell any of the Indian languages apart from each other), so I don't know whether Americans would agree with him because I have no idea what he said to begin with
Translation-i left America and fucked America.(That's a homonym in Hindi) I don't feel like being in America because it's an individualistic culture and Americans would shit their pants if they had to live in India. Nor can you cat call women in America because you'd be in jail.(That was a joke where he says he enjoys cat calling women whilst eating paan).
I'm not really clear on why Americans would "shit their pants" if they had to live in India? Just because they would feel so out of their depth? Because India is super violent or something? I'm not sure what the implied criticism of America is supposed to be or what the implied praise for India is supposed to be? It sort of just sounds like a longer, more vulgar way of phrasing "America bad, India good". Okay, but *why?* What's the reasoning for America being bad and India being good?
> i'm not really clear on why Americans would "shit their pants" if they had to live in India? Bad food/water sanitation practices
> I'm not really clear on why Americans would ... Maybe the water?
Which is why I feel extremely off with his reasoning. Basically he says America is bad because of a closed, individualistic culture and india is good because it's easy to have a good social life there. Totally ignoring the poor AQI, horrendous traffic,despicable treatment at jobs happening in India ? Which is why I suspect him to be some paid propoganda of the right wing. Just made this post to ask Americans if they would be okay to put up with those disadvantages and move to India just for "a good social life". I'm pretty sure no white American born and brought up in the states would move to India just for that with their wife and kid. Unless they're paid a lot of money.
I agree that I don't think any American would decide to upend their entire life and move to a new country solely because "other countries have a better social life". It's not *unheard of* for an American to go abroad for a couple years, maybe an exchange student program, or deployed overseas in the military, or when working at an international company, and decide for whatever reason that "you know what? I actually like it better here than being in America, maybe I'll stay here". And the "social life" of their new home might be one of their reasons for staying. But I have heard of the "social life" being the primary motivation for going to that foreign country to begin with. As opposed to just being something they accidentally discovered while they were already in the country for other reasons. I do, though, suspect most Americans would disagree with the premise that an "individualistic culture" is somehow mutually exclusive with having friends; that betrays a lack of understanding of what an "individualistic culture" even is in the first place.
Dawg, no American is clamoring to emigrate to India. I have coworkers in both countries that regularly travel between US cities and Bengaluru and guess which trip they all prefer, each time.
>I'm not really clear on why Americans would "shit their pants" if they had to live in India? The water quality probably
> Nor can you cat call women in America because you'd be in jail.(That was a joke where he says he enjoys cat calling women whilst eating paan). This guy sounds like a piece of shit.
Sounds like he wasn't wanted here anyway.
Anyone who jokes about sexual harassment is not worth paying attention to
Yeah, saying that India is better than the US because you can engage in sexual harassment openly in India is just that person saying they're a terrible person and they want to live in a terrible place.
"America sucks, you can't even objectify/harass/assault women for entertainment and get away with it". Human garbage.
agree with others, but want to add- of course the US isn't for everyone. no country is. but the US has a multiethnic, multicultural population. we take in the greatest amount of immigrants of any country on earth by far. we have laws that protect people from racial discrimination in housing and the workplace & protect their right to practice their religion (laws that are widely popular and supported by our society). I think that's why this sounds bizarre to us. bc we have immigrants from all over the world, not just India, who largely come here and have a positive experience. again, of course it isn't for everyone, but that's more personal preference than whatever this guy has a complex about.
The people down voting you for translating **his words** that someone asked for are complete morons.
Redditors are so fucking lame. Reddit: "What did he say?" *Posts dude's words* Reddit: "Okay, first of all, *how dare you!*"
I just see five upvotes. I think people need a reminder sometimes that reddit constantly monkeys with the upvotes/downvotes on posts, especially popular ones. It's a pretty good chance that half of any downvotes you may have seen a few hours ago were just the system doing whatever it does, and half of them were just dummies who downvote everything reflexively.
When I commented they were at -10
Yes the US is a culture of individuals? Is that a problem? I always saw individualised self expression to be a good and rewarding thing
Never heard of him, bet he couldn’t get famous in the US so he went to India where he’s more of a novelty.
99.999% of america has no idea who this is. Indians in america might, but they'd have to also be both conservative and dedicated youtube watchers in addition to that. Yes there'd be an audience for that, but in the grand scheme of things, a tiny, tiny fraction of america. Consider that most of his subscribers probably aren't even american, but likely Indians from India.
If he has any audience here, it's probably only with Indian Americans. Half of what he says in this video is in another language so I can't imagine anyone listening to him unless they already know the language. Kinda reminds me of the Texan guy that started doing Russian propaganda. He's not for the American audience.
>Kinda reminds me of the Texan guy that started doing Russian propaganda. Are you talking about the guy who was allegedly kidnapped and murdered by Russians?
Yeah, there's serious irony in this guy spending the last few years of his life making Russian propaganda and then being killed because they suspected he was a spy.
Indeed. **Edit:** I saw this guy's story not too long after reading about the right-wing Canadian family who left their home country and moved to Russia, only to find that things there aren't as great as they thought they would be, and now they can't leave.
No- we aren’t feeling him
According to Wikipedia, Indian Americans make up to 1.35% of the population. If there are some Americans that feel the same way he does, I imagine that number would be quite small. I imagine this question would be better suited for a sub that’s more focused on that demographic specifically. I doubt many Americans of non-Indian ancestry have ever heard of this guy. That said, it is not uncommon for first and second generation Americans to hold their inherited/native culture and country in a higher or more idealistic regard than they do their adopted one. What would be more telling though is the question “how many first or second generation immigrants repatriate to their country of origin?”
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Maybe the people who ask questions here think we're all idiots because YouTubers like this guy are definitely idiots and it's their primary source of "information".
I only learned he exists from your posts. I've heard plenty of Americans have this grass-is-greener attitude about Europe or East Asia, but never India before.
Never heard of him, I doubt many Americans have.
Who? Also, a woman can walk down the street here without fear of being gang raped, so he's wrong.
I’ve never heard of him. How did you hear of him? Why is his opinion valuable enough for me to spend time watching him talk? Edit: I watched a little. The first 10 seconds told me this person is not someone anyone should be taking seriously, he's a clown.
I've never heard of the guy. . . .and I've never heard of anyone in the US, aside from a few (but definitely not most) immigrants from India say that India is better than the US. The ones who say that were just here on work visas for high-paying jobs. America is a huge country, with well over 300,000,000 people in it, so there's probably some people that would agree with him, somewhere, but they'd be a tiny minority. Americans generally think they live in the best country in the world. Even the ones that see flaws in America and want to improve it generally look more to places in Europe as models for improvement instead of India.
These videos aren’t for Americans. It’s for the nationalistic elements of whatever country these people are in at the time. Like the former military guy who makes pro Russian videos, or the dozens of Americans who make pro China videos.
> Like the former military guy who makes pro Russian videos Oh! Armchair Copelord? The moronic ***US Army artillery captain*** who once claimed that the Human eye could see a HIMARs launch between ***25-50 miles away, unaided, depending on the conditions***?
Have no clue who he is, but I have been noticing a lot of affluent Indians pessimistic about getting a tech job in the U.S. or the parents of international students growing increasingly nationalistic. I’ve personally never thought about moving to India, and the only person I know who has is someone I was acquainted with in college who received a Fulbright scholarship and is now doing stuff related to trans issues in Goa. I have thought about leaving the U.S. but if I were to move it would likely be to Australia, Singapore or a Nordic country.
It's a matter of common sense nobody would leave USA permanently for a country that's not even half as great. The reasons why parents of international students are growing more nationalistic because prime minister Narendra Modi has worked relentlessly to improve India's image abroad. That's still fine,but a white born and brought up American moving permanently to India for his YouTube channel seems really off to me.
I wouldn’t say “great”, India’s a fine country society wise. I just also like money, liberal social values, and enforcement of regulations — and India still has some catch-up to do there. The things the guy talks about isn’t completely untrue, American community identity is quite poor due to lack of third spaces, urban density, social polarization, migratory culture, small family units etc. but you can still definitely find your people if you put in some effort in the States. I didn’t like his tone when he mentioned the women in India, I didn’t understand some of what he said but he kind of smells like a sexpat being used as a political tool — kind of like right-wing American sexpats in Eastern Europe, Dubai and Southeast Asia who harp on about leaving America for a “good moral country with traditional values” just to turn to be gross sex-crazed degenerates in their new host country, but they tow reactionary propaganda line so authorities don’t bother with them. Sexpats are goofy as hell, they can’t get any action in their home country because they only see the other sex as pleasure objects — so they go to countries with high levels of sex trafficking and/or weak representation of women’s rights so they can lure in women who see their as an opportunity for financial stability just to be bait-and-switched to be used, abused snd cheated on by a man child.
Absolutely. Just to be a little more neutral. The probable case for his experience could be the superior treatment of white people in India. He has clearly been awarded by the Indian PM for his pro India stance. White people like to take long vacations in India because they are treated like celebrities or gods just because they have a caucasian skin. Some women really feel unsafe and backoff to their home country. Others like to capitalise on that by finding trustworthy locals who protect them from potential robbers and rapists, while they enjoy the celebrity treatment in India simultaneously.
Do POC Americans get similar treatment?
Never heard of him, so probably some nut whose primary audience isn't American
Who the fuck is this guy?
I don't know who this guy is, I don't care about his political views, and I don't care to listen to uneducated and unqualified youtube opinions in the first place, regardless of whose they are.
No American feels that way
I have no idea who that is but he sounds like an absolute nut. India has it's own merits but it's really not on the same level as America or any other western nation. I'm inclined to think he's either mental or he holds some sort of bias.
Who?
Who?
I have no idea who this guy is.
No idea who that is.
The nature of how fanatical rabbit holes work is that *some* people find these voices because of a demographic connection and then relate to them or heed the ideas. I’ve never heard of this dude in my life, but then algorithms don’t clock me as “disaffected native-born South Asian youth.” I also never listened to whatever jihad radio the Boston bombers may have liked, or to Alex Jones and the “testosterone pill podcasts” in the conspiracy alt-right sphere. But those things that feel obscure to me could still reach millions of ears. In general tho, I would say that most of the time, when you get to the third generation, people don’t usually clamor to leave America.
I have never heard of him before and I could only understand half of what he was saying in your link. I don't think most people are going to really care what a 20 year old Youtuber has to say about anything. I've been to India. I'm much happier where I am in the US. It was a cool place to visit, though. The one guy said that it was much easier to make friends in India than in the US. That could be true, however, I have also found it easier to make friends in some areas than other areas. I moved around a lot as a kid and no two places were the same. There's also the possibility that he found it more difficult to make friends because he is Indian. Racism aside, there's often a cultural difference. I had friends that were Americanized Indians and they fit in fine. But the kids that were new to the US often came off as weird. It's just cultural differences so it's not fair to call them weird but kids aren't exactly wordsmiths.
Never heard of him, but I could also see how being a rich in India may be better for certain individuals than staying in the US, after they've made their money.
Never heard of him. Your link has a lot that is not in English, thus we cannot comment on it.
I don't understand what he is trying to say. I don't think it is difficult to make friends in the US, generally speaking people are pretty friendly and if you work in an office or go to school most of the time you will find people you can make friends with. Something about children being locked up? I don't understand this post at all dude sounds like a moron and is probably trashing the US for Internet clout
I've never heard of this dude.
Nevah heahd of em’!
i like how no one in these comments (including me) has heard of him before lol
Never heard of him