Comment by SirMaster

OK, but like for me when someone says "Indian people are better at math", my mind basically says to myself, "OK, the average Indian person in the USA (the ones that they and I see and interact with) is better at math than the average person".

Because in my mind, that's the environment the person making that claim was in, so I just kind of automatically include that in my interpretation of their statement.

I don't think they are making a generalized statement that that Indian people are genetically better at math. I think they are making a statement that they perceive that average Indian person that they run into is better at math than the average person they run into. And maybe they are right, and maybe there is a reason based in reality why that is.

It sounds like that is somewhat true based on what you said about the visas.

I never take any of these things to have anything to do with genetics. To me it's always due to some external factor like the visas as you mentioned, or even maybe just like a cultural thing where they are pushed harder to be good at something as they go through school, and so are better at something than the average person in the end.