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on Friday November 30 2018, @09:47AM
from the Quite-a-few-from-Europe-and-China,-too dept.
from the Quite-a-few-from-Europe-and-China,-too dept.
As a former H1 visa holder, this article interested me and shows the value that immigrants bring to the USA.
According to this opinion piece, the USA and specifically Santa Clara county is only the leader in tech because of immigrants.
In 1965, the Immigration Act of 1924 was repealed, opening the gates to immigrants and allowing a critical mass of technology companies to develop in clusters around Boston and Santa Clara County. A significant proportion of all the best graduates from the best schools in India (IIT) came to the USA -- in effect, the USA siphoned off India's best talent and used it to develop leadership in technology and to grow the economy.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday November 30 2018, @03:55PM (5 children)
it's new thoughts and ideas that make things better? Breaking people out of the "this is how I think and how I think is right...the world IS flat!" ways.
Sometimes new blood can change an organisation for the better.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Shire on Friday November 30 2018, @04:22PM (4 children)
Perhaps if the PC culture weren't so stifling to opposing thoughts, the nation as a whole would be better off.
Intelligent discourse involves offending and being offended by alternative ideas.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 30 2018, @06:14PM (3 children)
Perhaps if the PC culture weren't so stifling to opposing thoughts, the nation as a whole would be better off.
Except, the world actually is not flat. It's not "PC" to point that out.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Shire on Friday November 30 2018, @09:17PM (1 child)
That's a completely nonsensical response. No one is claiming the world is flat. But a large group of people seem to believe that everyone who thinks differently than they do must automatically be a nazi|racist|misogynist|supremacist and if you oppose them they will lynch you. This authoritarian PC group represents the very monsters they claim to hate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @10:30PM
What stupid paranoid rambling.
There are some very specific things that will get you bombarded by the PC crowd and often a heart felt apology goes a long way to escaping the METAPHORICAL lynching. Unlike with racists where you will get ACTUALLY beaten/lynched/killed for simply existing.
Yeah, I'm crying a river over here for your problems.
And you types wonder why we look down on you as bigoted assholes. Well wonder no more!!
Maybe you yourself are not a racist and might even be a decent person, but this ridiculous whinging about non-problems while other groups have real problems makes you complicit in the on going racism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @09:28PM
And biological males are not females either, but the irrational backlash directed at anyone who publicly points out that out simple non-"PC" fact is appalling.