Foreign people perception about India and its citizens

How do people from other countries view Indians?

EDIT: I'm Jewish, in case this isn't obvious...

I can tell you about Indians living in Silicon Valley, and my mom works for a venture capitalist Indian family, her quote: 

"They're like jews! Hard working, high level, pushy mothers, and marry within their own culture! I don't get the whole diet of not eating meat though." Haha. 

• Hardworking; become doctors, scientists, engineers, etc
• Motivated set of immigrants(above), hence my mom's comment. 
• Living in Silicon Valley, I get the impression Hindus are higher economic class than Sikhs? I hardly see Sikhs here, except maybe Fremont
• Alan Cohen's comment about Indian mothers rings true; my really good (Indian) friend's mother can be substituted for mine. Just as pushy, neurotic, and ultimately wants the best for her kids and success for them. +1 for crazy, well meaning, pushy families!
• This is just my opinion as a westerner, I may get crap for this, but the most foreign concept for me to grasp is the idea of arranged marriages. My (Indian) friend refuses this, and it caused such serious scandal, nearly led to her family to stop talking to her. Her brother found an Indian at work, so her parents were okay with it, but since she's the girl, strict with this I guess.
• Maybe it's the type of friends I make  but, my close Indian friends, who are from Stanford, Berkeley, etc are somehow very hardworking, but balance life--one of my friends is a great Salsa dancer, another is a great Zumba dancer. My Indian friends are so full  of life!  :-)
• I still remember Bollywood performances from my High School and UCLA--HOLY CRAP!
• Bollywood music is so infectious and upbeat! I actally love it. Some of it seems can be straight in top 40 regular dance and hip hop music that's being listened to.
• Alan Cohen's comment about Bollywood rings true. Musical cheesiness at its finest. But I don't like musicals and Broadway in general, haha.
• Keeping within the culture like (some) Jews are.
• I find that Indian girls can be gorgeous. 

This is strictly my view about Indians with my interaction and many live here in Silicon Valley, and also of my time in college in UCLA. I haven't been to India(yet!), but many of my Israeli friends have, I look forward to visiting and see the contrasts and the developing country up close.y legs a

EDIT #2: The most intense Zumba instructors I had were all Indian. What is about Indian Zumba instructors--they make me sweat 100X more when I'm done. My legs are dead for the rest of the day.