The United States is experiencing a growing Asian Indian American population. As a community, the Indian American population in the United States has dramatically increased by almost 106 percent from 1990 to 2000, rising from 815,447 in 1990 to approx. 1.678 million currently, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The recent census indicates that this community has grown at a rate of 7.6 percent a year in the last ten years The Indian American community is now the third largest Asian …showed first 75 words of 1772 total…

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