Hindu? You're Pre-Approved For A Loan!

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Need a good money manager? Consider hiring a Hindu or a Sikh!

 

The recent Financial Services Authority (FSA) capability study into

Britain's personal finances found that these two communities are best

at handling money for reasons, the researchers noted, "that are hard

to explain."

 

So the Guardian newspaper went into the Hindu and Sikh communities for

answers and came up with the following explanation: "Hinduism stresses

that increasing the family's wealth is a duty and a blessing from the

goddess Lakshmi, the consort or wife of Lord Vishnu. She is the

goddess whose four hands represent prosperity, purity, chastity and

generosity. As two of her four virtues are to do with money, every

family tries to manage with care and to be more prosperous than the

previous generation without compromising spiritual virtues. Sikhism,

which also figures highly in the FSA financial capability study, is

vastly different as a religion, but has a similar ethos -- living in a

family environment and serving the community enables truth and God to

be realized."

 

The FSA report found that Muslims were better than average at money

management and Christians are just above average.

 

So are the credit card companies ready to cut Hindus and Sikhs a break?

 

SOURCE: Little India [uSA]

URL: http://www.littleindia.com/news/128/ARTICLE/1066/2006-05-12.html