Could not agree more with Amit. I just want add few more, my perspective as well.

Indians wherever they are, which parts of the world they are living in, they work hard to make themselves stand out. For ex, they never give up their foods, custumes, cultures and the " very feeling of Indianess", unlike we, the nepalese, we feel ashamed of wearing our traditional custumes, we are ultra modernist ( unltra western) and give hardly any regards and wear as if we are daughter or son of western world..( pls do not get offended)  be we are in nepal or US. We afraid to do different and we are good at pulling legs whereas inidans they always get along well , at least en masse. again ex, back in school days,  indians used to celebrate their festivals be it is holi or diwali, they used to bring so much crowd, thanks to their performance and food, not to mention their unity. But do we nepali bother to do that..no, we do may be in bits and pieces, that too with lid guitar and drum which would hardly entice anyone rather distort our identity and culutre.do we ever make big occasion for " buddha jayanti", how about " mt. everest day on may 29??", how about " teej?" and so on..but we do not do that..we feel ashame again we are ultra modernist.

So people who does not care their culture and identity, how can you expect them to be doing great " as a community". Yeah, as an individual some nepalis are doing good but as a community we are........pls accept it!