"I have posted on another thread that the Indian (from India) Americans have the highest per capita earnings in America. This is without handouts or special considerations - just hard work and focus and no excuses."
Indeed.
There are many examples of peoples around the world rising up and escaping situations of disadvantage and adversity. It's merely a matter of instilling the right cultural incentives. In the case of Indian society, my sense is that those cultural incentives stem from an emphasis of the family unit.