While there are difficulties when researching Asian American identity due to mixed ethnicity/race, generational gaps, foreign nationalism, and the aforementioned fear of racial homogenisation, it is important to remember that questions that concern between sub-groups.6 These intersectional and interdisciplinary methods can be exported in regards the analysis of the Indian-German population.
Ultimately, understanding the particularities of Indian-German is not meant to further enforce stereotypes of apolitical citizens of academic "model minorities"; instead, deeper research along the lines of motivation and ethnic identity can incorporate new elements to frameworks and research methodologies that have been largely tailored for more dominant populations.7 Specifically, many of the same stereotypes of Indians in Germany are apparent in America. While there might be truth to some generalisations in regards to class, gender, education levels, language capabilities, and career and academic preferences these broad understandings should not be applied in an overly absolutist or constraining manner.
Unlike the United States, the United Kingdom, or other nations tier to the Commonwealth, Germany holds a unique role in shaping transnational Indian politics that is not normally perceived in other Western nations. The nuances in German immigration history as well
Asian America is not a culturally bounded entity but rather one that rises from the exigencies posed by racialisation in the US. Analysts of the Asian American movement have noted the inherent and ongoing contradictions of a movement that builds solidarity around the very category that has been used to racialise, homogenize, and oppress those within it.5
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5. Kibria 1998
6. Yanigasako 1995
7. Okamoto 2003