Much to do about nothing as DEI goes away !This American educational competitiveness issus has multiple angles:
1) Social media has distorted our perceptions. The emphasis is now all on the outliers as anyone can post them and we think of them as displaying a new normal. We've always had lazy basket weaving majors from No Name U but now we hear about them every day. My extended family is chock full of liberals yet I don't know of one of them distraught enough over Trumps's victory that they couldn't go to work or school the next day. This is not to say there aren't some disturbing trends.
2) Comparing Indian immigrants to the average American is not all that useful. Indian (and Chinese) immigrants are, by and large, la creme de la creme from those countries. If education in India was so advanced then why is it still a third world country? The more important phenomenon is these people want to come to the USA and generally pick it over most any other destination (or even staying home).
3) Vivek Ramaswamy makes some good points, even if they are uncomfortable to some. However, his example of the Indian-decent CEO is not a particularly good one. If anything, it shows the inherent racism in that CEO's line of thinking. Though editing can distort some conclusions, we're left with the real possibility that CEO would hire a native of India over, say, someone from some other group even if that native of India is less qualified.
4) The USA's willingness to hand out money to most anyone to be educated in most anything has had two negative effects: it's made education more expensive and it fuels a culture of education as an end in itself instead of eduction as a higher end trade school from which to launch a career.