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C onn ect i ng C u ltu r es T hrough F am i ly and F ood

the United States, it made sense to come here to study and work.” Anirudh is part of what has been called the Information Technology Generation of Indian immigrants . Starting in themid-1990s, about 100,000 techexperts ayear begancoming toAmerica fromIndia. They found steady, well-paying work with American companies worried that their computer systems would malfunction on the last day of 1999. (At the time, people worried that when the calendarmoved from1999 to 2000, computerswould stop working because so much of their work is tied to the date. The fear came from the way most computers read the year, as 18 instead of 2018. So suddenly switching from 99 or 00 [which could also be 1900] might have caused problems. The problem turned out to be very minor.)

The British East India Company became the most powerful colonial organization in Southeast Asia in the 1800s.