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The US's Reverse Brain Drain
We may have to rethink the assumption that Silicon Valley is the hotbed of innovation in which all the world's best and brightest want to work and live. TechCrunch has a piece by an invited expert on the reverse brain drain already evident and growing in the US as Indian, Chinese, and European students and workers in the US plan to return home, or already have. From an extensive interview with Chinese and Indian workers who had already left: "We learned that these workers returned in their prime: the average age of the Indian returnees was 30 and the Chinese was 33. They were really well educated: 51% of the Chinese held masters degrees and 41% had PhDs. Among Indians, 66% held a masters and 12% had PhDs. These degrees were mostly in management, technology, and science. ... What propelled them to return home? Some 84% of the Chinese and 69% of the Indians cited professional opportunities. And while they make less money in absolute terms at home, most said their salaries brought a 'better quality of life' than what they had in the US. ... A return ticket home also put their career on steroids. About 10% of the Indians polled had held senior management jobs in the US. That number rose to 44% after they returned home. Among the Chinese, the number rose from 9% in the US to 36% in China."
Don't worry! Millions of dollars from the stimulus bill are being used to send americans to cosmetology school, where they can learn important skills to advance our nations's cornrows and dreadlocks.
As an American, I don't give a fuck about "human civilization."
Instead, I care about what's good for the US.
Kid-proof tablet..
When you have rising population of white supremacist and neo-cons in this country, who claims that Chinese people are coming over to kill Americans, bringing in loaded guns into an Obama town hall meeting, glass ceiling in corporations (especially defense contractors), I wouldn't surprise this happen, sooner or later.
New Economic Perspectives
Let me guess, ... american?
If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
The military industrial complex will have none of that. Not Haliburton, not Texas Instruments, not Lockheed and not the rest. These arms makers make too much money to stop making it now. If our present government acts against their interests, you will see another Kennedy assassination.
A matter of priorities. The few who want to achieve something go to the US and work until they die. The majority who want to live a good life stay in Europe.
Get one thing straight....
Unless you are a Native Indian from North America... You are a damm foreigner yourself, ok!
"You can't make a race horse of a pig"
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
You get this straight I was born in the United States of America NOT the "Americas", my great great etc. grandparents were foreign but I AM NATIVE BORN.
You get this straight unlike those 'Native People' I and even some of these foreigners pay the taxes we owe to the American government
You get this straight unlike those 'Native People' I don't start a riot about every piece of legislation just because I don't like it
You get this straight unlike those 'Native People' I support the party in power whether I voted for them or not.
You get this straight unlike those 'Native People' I support the interests of this country as a whole not just my self\tribe\clan
You get this straight I signed up for the draft despite not wanting to ever get shot at because I AM American.
If you want to compare the foreigners talked about in this article to these "Natives", then the former are far more deserving of being called Americans for what they contribute to this country while here, then the so called "Natives". BTW calling them Native, as if this country was built from anything that they contributed or established before being conquered, offends ME and the memory of my forefathers. So stick that in your Politicaly Correct filter. I know that this is off topic but Mr. SerpentMage there needed to see it.
Your ex, eh? I wonder why.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."