Former US ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands has stoked a major controversy as she said Americans are superiors than Indians as they believe in the Ten Commandments and are not fraudsters. Appearing on President Donald Trump's aide Steve Bannon's show, Sands said Indians as a group make about twice the income per capita as American citizens, and that's because Americans come from a high-trust society and a Judeo-Christian background. "We don't have fraud in America, typically. People follow the Ten Commandments and we do unto others as we have them do unto us," the former ambassador said.
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Sands said foreign cultures bring corruption with them. "These visa holders often have to pay the person who gets them the job 5or 10% of their salary in perpetuity. They cheat and they have fake diplomas. They pay for them in India. A ring has recently been busted that sold hundreds of thousands of fake degrees, mostly in STEM," Sands said, accusing India of giving medical degrees to students who did not even study medicine.
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