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A comment on 42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S. Parent comment

Re:42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the... by ssalazar on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:26PM (#14849805)
> But I live in one of those 195 experiments, and my fellows that share that with me, my countrymen, I support above the other 194. That's called being human.

Nice try, but nationalism is not an intrinsic trait of being a human.

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Re:42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the... by olewhalehunter on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:35PM (#14849921)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism#Biological...
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Re:42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the... by ssalazar on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:54PM (#14850770)
Even admitting biological propensity, is that really a quality to aspire to at the level of a nation-state? Is that how we should define and measure our "human-ness"?
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Re:42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the... by baddox on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:44PM (#14850030)
And even if it were, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
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