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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So is the idea that you have to be a United States citizen to go to a United States institution? Because if so, I’m not necessarily opposed to it.[/quote]

Never in history have we hosted so many foreigners un US institutions.  We need to look after our own FIRST.  We've neglected our own.  There needs to be a cap, like <10% or some number of foreigners to allow for majority Americans.[/quote]

And ban foreign students from ever attending any top 30 universities.

They have been stealing IP and American students' seats for decades while we subsidize each of these institutions with tax money in the tune of billions each year.

Tax payers are losing seats and money and foreigners are mocking Americans. 
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Is this the same poster? Until this week I never heard people complain that we educate too many foreigners in the USA. WTF is going on?[/quote]

Bc we see the number of kids from China at Cornell or the Cali schools. And our kids can’t get in. And it morphs the feeling of these campuses and makes them “quirky” and antisocial.

Why are we educating Chinas wealthiest??? Same for India. It makes no sense.[/quote]

Quirky and antisocial?  That's ridiculous.  Just admit you don't like foreigners!  Some of the nicest people in my grad program were the international students.  My grandma had a Chinese grad student friend at Cornell in the 1930s.  We have their pen pal letters.

China's wealthiest and India's wealthiest either want to move here or do business here. They want to be exposed to the state of the art education.  It's similar to what goes on at Oxford and Cambridge.[/quote]

The international cohorts are so large that these campuses are effectively segregated. Not sure why you think it’s some paradise. It’s not.[/quote]

Sounds like you have difficulty making friends with people who aren't exactly like you. International students are usually delighted to make American friends.  But they will peel off in groups for comfort if nobody reaches out.

Litmus test.  If you go to the cafeteria and see a group of people speaking a foreign language, does that upset you?  Do you wave and say hi to the people you know in that group?[/quote]

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I wave and say hi.  They say hi and continue to speak an exclusive language to keep me and others out.  It happened to DD at TJ too.[/quote]

Ok.  So then you make friends 1:1 and next time you can sit with them and they'll switch to English for you.[/quote]

NP. Why should they have to cater to antisocial behavior? How about no one appeases them, they can stay in their groups and Americans can choose whether they want such behavior around. Pretty simple. [/quote]

Unless you're Anglo-American or Native American, odds are your American immigrant forebears did exactly the same thing.

I have Eastern European heritage.  When my ancestors showed up to work on railroads in Upstate New York, the Irish immigrant people literally threw rocks at them.  They had a church and community organizations that all operated in their native language. Maintenance of a second language is normal.  Making friends across racial/ethnic lines is also possible and normal.  If you feel excluded, I really wonder whether you cared or tried to be included.

TJ is not an ordinary school.  Your problems in that rarified environment are not highly relevant to mainstream experiences.  Our high school is mostly white with average SAT somewhere below 1200.  It's not a school district that the brightest immigrants would send their kids to.  So as a consequence, my kid doesn't really know what excellence looks like.  Care to trade?[/quote]

Are you aware that all humans originated from Africa?  Yes, even your Eastern European ancestors.  Yet every other country has measures in place to protect their people BECAUSE they've gone through what the US is going through now.  Do you really think because the US is a 'newer' country, we shouldn't protect what our ancestors built here?  Why should we play by rules that are advantages to those without citizenship but not with?  We can and should increase opportunities for our citizens today without providing those opportunities for non-citizens.  Why is this so controversial?  Or is the fact that you might be African just mind blowing to you?[/quote]

I believe we are a great nation because of immigration.  There is enough "pie" to go around.  You are disappointed because of some admissions outcome.  So have your kid get ready to transfer.

Lol about bringing the Out of Africa hypothesis into this.[/quote]

We are a great nation because of immigration AND that is also changing because of immigration.  Both things can be true - mind blowing, I know.  And my kids are 7, 5, and 3, so they haven't applied to schools yet.  And I'm also Anglo-American from the Mayflower, yet still African.[/quote]

White liberal social justice mom until she gets robbed[/quote]

By a foreign student?[/quote]

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