Originally posted on Quora.

Q. How should I look at people who wish to move away from my country (India) to developed
countries (particularly US, UK & Australia) and aspire to get a citizenship and settle there for good?
A. How do you look at people who are raised by their parents all their life, only to grow up and
move to a different city for work, like say, Bangalore? Aren't they traitors? Heck, there are so many
of that kind. Cheats, emotionless creatures, ungrateful morons, selfish people! We should consider
their words as words from inhuman and vile animals. No, even animals are loyal to their parents.
Jerks had to use their own biological parents as the launchpad in life, to ultimately land in greener
pastures of their choice! They should be forcefully fed grass and hay till death!
There are plenty of good arguments bundled with facts here already. You can take my words as
words from a fellow national because I speak as someone who has not yet stepped out of the
country, and probably won't emigrate. Why, you ask? I don't know, I just like it in here. Just as the
"traitors" like it out there. What is the big deal?
There are a lot of peopleIndians as well as non-Indiansborn outside India but living in India.
You probably already know about Tom Alter. There is Joseph Allen Stein, the American architect
who was behind the designing of the Lodhi Estate in Delhi. So you see, it isn't just India that raises
so many traitors, almost every country in the world does.
Your question actually doesn't come across as odd to me. We have all been taught stuff and told to
hate such migrators right back in the school daysall in the name of "Brain drain". But you have to
understand a few things here. Seriously, the time has come for us to stop being so hypocritical.
A country does no favor to its people by providing them resources, or rather, a "launchpad". They
pay taxes to the government. They pay fee to the schools they study in. And yet, the government,
our ministers, our chosen 'leaders' mess up quite a lot. Save your word 'traitor' for somebody else,
we have better candidates within the confines of this large nation.
If you had the American president telling his people:
"Our kids are falling behind when it comes to science. We have kind of settled into mediocrity when
we compare ourselves to other advanced countries and wealthy countries..."
"So even with the good schools, we have got to pick up the pace, because the world has gotten
competitive. The Chinese, the Indians, they are coming at us and they're coming at us hard, and
they're hungry, and they're really buckling down"
... the credit goes to these very "traitors", who are not only representing us on a global scale, but
doing so really, really well. I think we owe many thanks to them for scaring people in the far more
developed countries, on their own land!
India is way behind when it comes to technology, research, and entrepreneurship. And you can't
hold back a person interested in pursuing any of these areas just because he needs to "show" his
patriotism. That will not take us any further from where we currently are.
I don't see how an Indian working at Google, Bangalore is different from one working in Mountain
View, or how is the latter a traitor. It is his company that is getting the benefit of his skill ultimately.
And we are enough in number to not miss a few.
Man has moved from places to places since the earliest of times in search of better facilities. If
those going to live in other countries are traitors in your terms, what name do you have for those
going to other countries, pursuing their education there maybe, gaining experience, and coming
back? Even if they "serve India" on returning, you should call them traitors too. You should call
them traitors also for not trusting their own country. Just because they are cheating another country
this way, doesn't mean they should be freed of these harsh judgments and hatred!

Do you now see how illogical, cynical, and utterly outdated this labeling is? It goes back to the war
times, when every other nation was seen as an enemy and every citizen favoring another nation, a
damned traitor. Going by your concept, no MIT, Stanford, Oxford etc. should let Indians even enter
their campuses. Globalization and all that jargon? Whatever!
Living in India and cursing it every single day is no better than leaving it forever.
This is not to say that it makes no sense to stay back and serve the country (obviously), or that we
should not love our motherland. This is to say that people moving outside India love (and miss)
India as much as we hopefully do. That the 'love' in itself is highly questionable is a different story.
As a matter of fact, very few of us living in here are doing anything meaningful for the society or the
nation at large. Are you working for the poor? Are you running and NGO, or working for one? Are
you doing anything for the destitute? My guess is that you are doing just what most of us are doing
rotting in cubicles to make money. Those who are actually serving the nation can rarely be found
questioning others, they love their work way too much to have that much time. The least we can do
is to stop judging everyone as per our convenience and just let. them. be. Please.