Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star...
by gumby on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:58PM
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> Since you are Australian, you are probably not aware of how biased the immigration system is, against the Indians.
I am not aware of such a bias, and I have a half a dozen Indian relatives living in the USA (I am an Australian with one Indian parent, currently living in the USA). I have not studied any current place-of-origin biases in particular (I know historically they were dreadful and for all I know they still are. Certainly the rhetoric is).
> ...that of Canada and Australia where the most productive humans with greatest potential are allowed in...
Ah, but it's all about who decides what is deemed "with the greatest potential". It's what is believed to be needed now of course, whether nurses, plumbers, or geneticists, but what about poets, lunatics, or those who write music I don't enjoy?
I am not aware of such a bias, and I have a half a dozen Indian relatives living in the USA (I am an Australian with one Indian parent, currently living in the USA). I have not studied any current place-of-origin biases in particular (I know historically they were dreadful and for all I know they still are. Certainly the rhetoric is).
> ...that of Canada and Australia where the most productive humans with greatest potential are allowed in...
Ah, but it's all about who decides what is deemed "with the greatest potential". It's what is believed to be needed now of course, whether nurses, plumbers, or geneticists, but what about poets, lunatics, or those who write music I don't enjoy?