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This article was a bit nauseating. The underlying defensivenes is quivering pathetically on the writers sleeve.
The girl is a cheater. She plagerized. Doesn't mean anything about East Indians in general.
Many East Indian people are bright, driven, and educated. Bollywood films are often eye-poppingly beautiful, pulitzer prizes aside, there are some great Indian writers, scientists, professors, and activists.
There are also many racist, ignorant East Indian people, dumb, suv driving gangsta kids from the suburbs. Depressed adults grappling with learning disorders, and overweight harridans hating boring office jobs. Many Bollwood films are shallow bits of eye candy with no sub-text. Some Indian literature is overly prosaic, new-agey garbage.
My point is not to slam East Indians, just to say, easy there! Put your culture on a pedestal, that's fine, but don't write an inane article about it which seems to want to perpetuate a stereotype that started to wither away years ago. You want to make it clear the cheater girl is an anomalie, and that Indians are by-in-large high acheivers. Just say it. Don't publish thinly veiled defensive missives. It's tripe.
