Many people do engage in double talk.

Because on a deeper level they realize how cool the West is.

Several theories: 1. They want the benefits without realising the mindset that achieved them 2. They want to destroy the West gradually. 3. They are hypocrites. I suppose there are other theories...take your pick.

Because, I think, they want all the benefits of a Western Civilisation but do not want the responsibilities and obligations that go with it. They same reason people leave their countries of birth because they are oppressed and starving and in danger of their lives and come to 'western' countries and then engage in the very activities that they left to escape. Humans are perverse!

There is a lot about our civilisation I don't like. A lot I do. But I am more likely to be heard moaning about the bits I don't like in order to try and improve them. The bits that are established and I like are well... established and don't need too much discussion unless they come under attack (like freedom of speech which I do defend as it is under attack a fair bit right now, one of the elements I don't like by the way...), then I will discuss them as much. You don't spend as much time working on an engine that is running smoothly as you do on one that is completely broken. A little tune up now and again yes but not a full overhaul :)

India is the world's largest, oldest, and continuous civilization. I do not know about conditions in other countries, but I can tell you about Indians emigrating to USA. They are not "oppressed or starving or in danger of their lives" in India. They want to prove to the world what they are capable of. 55% of foreign doctors in USA are Indians. 65% of foreign computer programmers are Indians. 12% scientists in USA are Indians. 36% of NASA scientists are Indians. 34% of Microsoft employees are Indians. 28% of IBM employees are Indians. 17% of INTEL scientists are Indians. 13% of XEROX employees are Indians. 1. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems? Vinod Khosla. The Sun founder also had an Indian Professor in Computer Technologies at Louisiana State University. 2. Who is the creator of the Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)? Vinod Dham. 3. Who is the third richest man in the world? According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is AZIM PREMJI, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. 4. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)? Sabeer Bhatia. 5. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT &T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, and Unix to name a few)? Arun Netravalli. 6. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard? Rajiv Gupta. 7. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems? Sanjay Tejwrika. 8. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart? Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar. Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the Caucasians and natives. 9. Indians also own nearly 40% of all the small and mid-size hotels in USA. 10. Another point is that three-fourths of all graduates from the prestigious IITs and universities in India are in the USA. 11. Let's not forget that it was such spiritual visionaries as Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Vivekananda, and others who first brought notice of the true glories of Indian Vedic philosophy to the American public, and helped change the public's view of spirituality, popularize the vegetarian diet and yoga, and make "Hare Krishna" a household word. 12. Four out of 10 Silicon Valley startups are run by Indians. 13. Gross Domestic Product of India is 4th in the world. http://www.airninja.com/worldfacts/GDPOfNations.htm Growing at 6%, in 25 years Indian GDP on a PPP basis will be at the same level the US is at today. Gone are the days when Indian Rupee is a weak currency. "Strong Rupee, Weak Dollar:" http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/05/stronger-indian-rupee-lower-adsense-dollar-earnings/ RUPEE is stronger than the dollar! "you could go anywhere in the world and people would be overjoyed to take dollars. Now even the most desperate bazaar hawker will pause and say, you got anything else besides dollars?" http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jane_sti_070102_twilight_zone_3a_where.htm 14. Bank deposits in India roughly equal 50% of its GDP OE again, among the highest in the world. 15. Indian Railways is the largest railway network in the world under single management. 16. Other than US and Japan, India is the only country to have built a super computer indigenously. 17. Of the Fortune 500 companies, 220 outsource their software-related work to India. 18. India has the second-largest pool of scientists and engineers in the world. 19. Indians are the richest immigrant class in the US, with nearly 200,000 millionaires. From a sample of 2004 US Census based surveys, Asians are the highest earning subgroup with a median income of $57,518 compared to the national average of $44,389. 20. Indian immigrants have founded more engineering and technology companies in the US in the past decade (1995-2005) than immigrants from the U.K., China, Taiwan and Japan combined. Of all immigrant-founded companies, 26% have Indian founders. Indians constitute the largest immigrant founding group, with 25% of startups, followed by immigrants from Germany and the U.K., each with 15%. 21. Indian immigrants are the primary founders of immigrant companies in the innovation/manufacturing-related services fields, and computer software. Indian immigrants outpaced their Chinese counterparts as founders of engineering and technology companies in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley's immigrant entrepreneurs led the nation in the 1990s by starting dynamic technology businesses that generate substantial wealth and employment in the USA. 22. Based on an analysis of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patent databases, Indians were second followed by the Canadians and British. Can you think of what will happen to American economy if all those Indians return home for good?

You want to know why? Because in the west, for all its faults there exists a system that at least gives everyone the hope of achievement. If they have the talent and a lot of luck they have a shot. In other parts of the world no matter how talented, or brilliant you are if you are not fortunate enough to be born into the right family you are doomed. End of story. Oh.. and we have McDonald's and the freedom to say whatever you like without getting your head cut off. Unfortunately, I am not exaggerating.