What is the value of an Indian education? You overlook the stark difference between rich people in a poor country, and poor people in a rich country. My dad came here with an education, sure. But his village school in Bangladesh had no walls! He had to take a boat to school during monsoon season. That’s what qualified as elite back home at the time.

Add in the fact that affirmative action isn’t about poor people. There are vanishingly few kids at Harvard who grew up in the projects in NYC. You’re comparing two groups of people who are comfortably middle class based on their grandfather’s status.

Its not the value of Indian education, its about having the right in the first place. Education was plainly denied in the name of caste(religious entitlement) and only very few had access to education until recently. As a side effect of british colonilzation everyone had access to education. But still it took several decades after independence(1947) for some one to get college level education. Vast majority of indians are first person to go college.

Now the op has a kid who is about to enter college which means when he arrived to USA he was already had access to college level education although had little money. The

Pay careful attention to his wordings. He has not denied his high caste. He is upper caste.

If he was lower caste, he is being hypocritical as he would have benefited from affirmative action in India.