42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S

Re:42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the... by jorgen123 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:57PM (#14849446)

Perhaps it is a case of a number without context. I have been here for nearly 18 years now and have become a citizen. I just wanted to get out of the rain of my homeland and into the California sunshine.

I guess I am part of the 42% but I was never one of the “poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. I just consider myself a proud American. 42% says nothing about how long people have been here and whether they are just a next wave building up the country like waves of immigrants from the past.

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Re:42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the... by winter_blue on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:27PM (#14849822)

I don't know why you're being downvated. The very fact that you are being downvoted shows how many folks with xenophobia are lurking around on Hacker News.

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