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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How did India get so entrenched in our country that they now have officials in our government? It went from taking our tech jobs to Ambassadors to the U.N. no less. I also had to listen to fireworks at night for a week earlier this month in my neighborhood because of their da$# festival. This country is finished.


5 posted on 11/20/2018 2:17:08 PM PST by gawatchman
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To: gawatchman

I don’t give a damn where someone is from, if they become an American, as opposed to someone from another country just living here.


6 posted on 11/20/2018 2:20:36 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: gawatchman

Teddy Roosevelt agreed with you:

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/txtspeeches/672.pdf


7 posted on 11/20/2018 2:28:55 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: gawatchman

“How did India get so entrenched in our country that they now have officials in our government? “

What kind of Americans persons are stems not from where there parents came from, but how much of the founders princples they aborbed, understood and reflect in their political outlook.

The aspect of one immigrant group or another having outsized representation in one idustry or another is not a recent phenomena but has been ongoing, and ever changing, in all of U.S. history.

How did the Irish come to dominate the NYC police force and Fired Department at one time, after many generations of the Irish being the underdog in NYC life?

Why do Korean-Americans have such a large representation in the dry cleaning business?

Why do Catholics now dominate the Supreme court, with five of the nine current justices; And that’s not counting Gorsuch who though an Episcopalian was raised a Catholic and attended the same Catholic High School as Kavanaugh? And that lopsided count is only one such question with a court whose remaining justices are all three Jewish?

Such questions invite many to be suspicious in stereotyped negatives against various ethic groups.

But the reality has mostly to do with what kind of life choices, in terms of careers, that folks have made, and why any certain group can lean toward careers that others in their group have followed before them.


9 posted on 11/20/2018 2:47:18 PM PST by Wuli
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To: gawatchman

As to one part of one of your complaints.

That immigrants from places like India, and other Asians appear to have such a large representation in the telecom and computer technology fields is really a reflection of three things.

One began in the 1980s with the rapid expansion of the need for people schooled and/or skilled the engineering fields of computer technology and telecomunications.

The second part was the high need and presence in those fields for persons with very good math skills.

And the third part was how much American high schools and colleges were not producing the quanitities of such persons to meet those needs.

In the 80s and 90s I had an IT staff that conisted of one “Irish-American”, one “African-American”, one “German-Swiss-American”, and the rest with parents from somewhere in Asia and none of them were on an H1B visa - just persons whose parents were not born here.

It would be better to ask why American families in general with long American backgrounds (other than Jewish Americans as a group), slowed their emphasis in education toward math, science and engineering, leaving more of those fileds to families of recent immigrant backgrounds.


10 posted on 11/20/2018 3:06:14 PM PST by Wuli
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