Re: Students in American Universities should temper their views - Split from China thread
Having foreign brains in our Unversities is no new occurance. We have gone through periods where jewish refugees dominated our univerities. Then it was post world war II Germans and Russians. You are missing the point entirely. Some proportion of these people will return to their own countries. A large proportion will stay in the US as our most valuable immigrants. This is how it has always been. That is what a free and open society gives you.
How do you think the Universities got there? Are they thriving or starving? The answer is that Americans build them endow them and finance them. They are proprietary. Foreign students will become next years almuni, as they get good jobs here in the states. Or better yet they will go fuel growth of American enterprises abroad. Capitalism is an amazing thing money follows innovation. Look at Japan today. In the 1960s it was a cheap little rogue country who produced cheap transistor radios and poor quality TVs. Today the make lexus and infinities. Are we threatened by that? No, they are among our biggest fans supporters and trading partners. There has never been a war between two democracies. The closer China moves to a true market economy, the more democratic they will become. It is inevitable.
India is much the same story, they were virtually a Soviet client state 30 years ago. But they have British tradition, and less of a language barrier, and are highly motivated to succeed in a competitive world. If they keep their foot on the pedal, they will leave Pakistan in the dust. If you are Bill Gates do you put up a new computing center in India or Karachi? How would you protect your employees in Pakistan these days? Why not just put a huge frikkin' bullseye on the side of the building? Never mind the fact that western Universities will have a much harder time with Pakistani kids visas, the path of last resistance is to the East.
Welcome to blowback my friends.
So if you are so arrogant as to believe that the US somehow needs the "best and the brightest" Islamic minds, think again. Globalization provides the alternatives...