{"id":11857,"date":"2006-10-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/10\/19\/washington-dc-area-sees-a-significant-indian-population-growth-in-the-last-five-years\/"},"modified":"2006-10-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T12:00:00","slug":"washington-dc-area-sees-a-significant-indian-population-growth-in-the-last-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/10\/19\/washington-dc-area-sees-a-significant-indian-population-growth-in-the-last-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington D.C. Area Sees a Significant Indian Population Growth in the Last Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/inwww.rediff.com\/newshound\/nl-showarticle.htm?rediffid=http:\/\/www.expressindia.com\/fullstory.php?newsid=75253\">inwww.rediff.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">WASHINGTON, U.S.A., October 10, 2006:  In the past five years immigrants from India have settled in the Washington metropolitan area increasing their population from 70,000 to 107,000.  These statistics are from a media report published by the Washington Post.  The report further added, &#8220;Foreign-born Indians now rival Koreans as the area&#8217;s second most populous group.  That growth naturally has smoothed the cultural transition for Indians; some joke that there are more Indian cultural events in the Washington suburbs than in Mumbai.&#8221;  Quoting Indian-Americans in the area the Post report explained, &#8220;And as India sprouts Western-style shopping malls and gleaming outposts of US companies, a small but growing number of Indians -particularly affluent male technology workers and retiring baby boomers &#8211; are leading dual lives in the countries.&#8221;  The Post also said that this most recent growth is the result of skilled workers, foreign students and family members, including many parents of immigrant professionals.  &#8220;In the 1960&#8217;s and 1970&#8217;s the first wave of Indian immigrants came to the U.S. with stellar academic credentials.  Those who stayed in America later brought their relatives in the 1980&#8217;s leading to the second wave of immigration.  This was followed by a third wave in 1990&#8217;s when the American technology industry surged. The Washington region census figures showed 72% Indians had a bachelor&#8217;s degree or higher, and their median household income was more than $75,000,&#8221; the Post report expounded.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inwww.rediff.com WASHINGTON, U.S.A., October 10, 2006: In the past five years immigrants from India have settled in the Washington metropolitan,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}