Some interesting comments from reddit (alluding to authority and a servile attitude):

[quote]'(...)he found Indian programmers to be very reluctant to speak up to management. He said they would rarely, if ever, say they were overburdened with too much work, and instead of asking for help, or saying they couldn't accomplish a task in a given period of time, they'd work themselves to death.'[endquote]

[quote]'It's more because they're used to authority figures that treat feedback as criticism.'[endquote]

[quote]'I have an Indian roommate who is currently in the CS program at UCLA. He's probably one of the smartest guys I know (...) However, he regards me as $deity{CS} (...), and so working with him on any project is a pain, because he seems to believe that whatever I come up with that approximates a design is The Way To Do Things (TM). However, as soon as I coerce him into designing something on his own, without prior input, he comes up with great stuff.'[endquote]

- http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8uiuq/top_indian_ceo_most_american_grads_are/c0ah4an

On 6/11/2009 11:16 PM, Srijayanth Sridhar wrote:
Good points, but what I am most curious about is why this phenomenon is
so prevalent in the Indian dev community and not as pervasive elsewhere.
The ruby community is rife with apt examples. The average Indian
developer will pop up and demand answers for a really silly Rails
question or something.

Jayanth

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Pradeep Gowda <prad...@btbytes.com
<mailto:prad...@btbytes.com>> wrote:

    On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Sridhar
    Ratnakumar<sridhar.ra...@gmail.com <mailto:sridhar.ra...@gmail.com>>
    wrote:
     > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Srijayanth
    Sridhar<srijaya...@gmail.com <mailto:srijaya...@gmail.com>> wrote:

     > I don't know the reasons either, but would like to know too.
     >
     > I often think the best way to handle such posters is to momentarily
     > divert the topic of the conversation to their own interest-level,
     > curiosity and self-learning .
    </snip>..

    I think it's best to ignore mails from users who do not care enough to
    use their real name/nick while asking questions. The user in question
      introduced himself as prasad, but we scan mail titles before reading
    mail content. Most people wouldn't care to  read a mail from
    "testing123 test<swtest...@gmail.com <mailto:swtest...@gmail.com>>",
    let alone answer it.  Online
    forums are just like real life communities, where people  judge  you
    by what you say and how you say it.  It's hard to relate to a
    anonymous, faceless name like "testing 123".  Use your real name. [1]

    If the same question is asked by some one who "appears" to be a real
    person, it might still be worth answering them, at the same time also
    pointing them to a net etiquette
    link [2]. In good faith, we can assume that the user in question is
    really new to using forums/mailing lists etc.,

    Over time, most people do learn how to do their home work and in turn
    ask smart questions.

    I'll see whether our membership welcome messages can be improved to
    reflect this.

    Happy hacking,
    Pradeep

    [1] http://informationarchitects.jp/use-your-real-name-when-you-comment/
    [2] http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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