While on the one side I think you have a point, on the other there's different dynamics in place as well; you're comparing offshore workers to internal employees. An offshore worker gets hired to do a job for another company, an internal employee is part of the company.
That is, an external worker (and I'm a consultant, I know) gets paid per hour, if the company goes under for whatever reason they just move on to the next assignment, while an internal employee leans more on their job.
Anyway that's just a theory. I'm a "consultant" which is just a fancy word for a temp / hired hand, and I'm somewhere in the middle in that I will think along with the company and propose improvements, but at the same time have lower risk and much less attachment to the companies I work for.
I don't think it's cultural per se. As an extreme example, the CEOs of Google and Microsoft were both born and raised in India.
> An offshore worker gets hired to do a job for another company, an internal employee is part of the company.
I've experienced both. Working with offshore employees and full time employees who happened to be in foreign countries. It was a similar experience with both, the exception being the ones that had previously lived and worked in the US.
> I don't think it's cultural per se. As an extreme example, the CEOs of Google and Microsoft were both born and raised in India.
Sundar Pichai moved to the US when he was in college. His entire working career and a bunch of his schooling was in the US.
Satya Nadella did the same.
As I said in my original reply, the ones who are more entrepreneurial or successful tend to move to the US (or at least used to).