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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just Canada.

The UK and Germany and China are heavily investing in their universities and their tech industry.

Their stated goal is to take the worldwide talent that currently goes to the US and starts companies like Google and Intel, and get that talent to go to THEIR countries.  To make the next Google a German, or a British, or a Chinese company. And it's working.

Thanks, Republicans.[/quote]

Good. We can start educating Americans at CalTech, MIT, Stanford, Rice, and the good medical schools[/quote]

Such a backward point of view.  Americans at Caltech and MIT and Stanford (I am an American who went to Stanford) HUGELY benefit from foreign talent coming here.

There are enough great American universities to accommodate the Americans that want to go to a great university and work hard.

... Actually, I'll go further.  
Your point of view is not just a backward one.  
It is a fundamentally weak and insecure point of view.  
It is the point of view of a coddled likely-conservative used to getting a hand up from being rich or white or male and afraid to compete in the real, worldwide arena where economic success is made.

Too bad for you.  America is a global economic giant because Americans have not been afraid to compete with the best the world has to offer.  
We invite global talent here because we are smart and strong and secure and we know we can learn from foreigners as we build a multiethnic culture together.  
If you're afraid of that, leave.  Or go to a conservative bubble school like Hillsdale and suck down wingnut welfare because you can't compete with actual smart people.[/quote]

Thank you.  I have a white kid at TJ. And I have never begrudged the 70% Asian admit rate, because those kids work for it.  And here is my message to my white kids:  you are smart, you are talented, you have a lot of potential.  So, if you want it, work for it. Whether “it” is TJ or college or grad school or a job.  In your grandparents generation, white men had virtually no competition.  In my generation, POC and women began competing in earnest.  In yours, you are competing on a global scale. So expect to put in as much work as the Indian American kids— and the kids in India, if you want the great college, the great job, the great life.

My kids are lucky to be born to UMC parents, to have gone to great schools, to have had us invest in them and their education, and that they will graduate from college debt free. That’s a lot of advantages.  They are lucky not to have to deal with institutional racism.  I don’t actually feel like they deserve any more over some other kid.

I have zero interest in sending a kid out into the world with white male privilege or white female privilege.  If for no other reason than I want them to be able to deal with the reality of globalization, rather than whining about what they “deserve”.  They will be competing on an international scale. They need to be prepared for that— in terms of education and in terms of attitude.

Maybe if white American kids worked as hard as 1st Gen Asian kids and international kids, they would be getting the spots at Stanford. [/quote]

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