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India has less PhD graduates than the US. You are confusing engineering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Do you know the difference?

And 50 percent of the silicon valley companies were founded by an Asian immigrant. Asians form about 3 percent of the US population. So there is massive overrepresentation of Asians in the Silicon Valley.

And since you mention Microsoft, their CEO is Indian. The Google/Alphabet CEO is Indian. And there are whole bunch of others.

As for being a cesspool state, a lot of that has to do with India being severely looted by the UK. Queen Elizabeth has a massive amount of stolen property from India. So I guess it would be appropriate to call her the Bandit Queen?

Finally, India is becoming an IT hub. Do you really think your prairie farm is the future of the world economy? It is likely that your kids of grandkids will be working for an Indian or Chinese company in the future.