Posted on 05/19/2019 7:47:51 PM PDT by Libloather
My granddaughter just turned 20 years old and has graduated University with a double major in Bio Chemistry and Psychology. She is taking the MCAT this Saturday for entrance into Medical School.
She is an amazing young Christian woman and we are so very proud of her.
Her goal is to be a trauma room surgeon to save lives.
I can offer confirmation on your first point as I have worked with some Gen Z kids. They are not much different they way my friends and I were at their age (i.e. they understand the value of work, and, for the most part, understand that they have to pay their dues to advance in the workplace).
As they’ve done in Cumming, Ga, and I’m sure esle where, they move their older parents in, deed the house to them and then have them go apply for property tax exemptions to avoid paying school taxes. While all the kids living in the house, among the 10-15 other family members, go to those very same schools.
The US has too many carve outs that these immigrants, refugees, and H1B visa holders know how to exploit.
There is an old saying. “You are who you hang out with”!!!
I predict that the statistics on business failures will need to be rewritten...
They can't keep the recruits in the program because it is too harsh.
There's your generation Z.
Trump says e-verify is too “tough” and that he wants to continue to suppress their wages through the massive hiring of the upwards of 40 million illegals in the country currently!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/19/steve-hilton-interviews-president-trump/
Says it was too hard for his company having to e-verify check employees when constructing the hotel in DC! Doesn’t want US farmers to have to hire legally!
Where was Ivanka and all her employer training programs when it came to hiring American construction workers?
Why continue to suppress cap investment in farming with cheap illegals and their poor working conditions?
Trump completely bought in on the Chamber of Commerce, big GOP donor, crap after Kushner specifically sought out those leeches on the country re: immigration.
Just look at the new levels of snowflakery at college campuses now—there is no question but that particular demographic is more indoctrinated than ever.
An anecdotal, my kids or my friends kids or my kids’ friends are great don’t wipe that away.
“You’re going to pee in a cup before you even get a job selling shoes”
Employer would be subject to lawsuit in this state if job is not legitimately hazardous.
A very dear and brilliant friend from the greatest generation once told me, “youth and enthusiasm is no match for cunning and treachery “.
I have wondered about the behind-the-scenes aspect.
Yep - several times when I had to go in to the Sunnyvale CA (Silicon Valley) social security office, I would see 10-12 of them (Indian tech guys) in the waiting area with their old non-english-speaking parents to sign them up for US government benefits.
[I’ve found Indians to be very culturally compatible with Americans, from when Americans were Americans.]
Unfortunately, they’re not politically compatible with the GOP:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2016/10/20/why-most-indian-american-hindus-do-not-support-trump/
[According to the 2016 National Asian American Survey, conducted in August and September, only 7 percent voted for Trump in the primaries and only 7 percent report that they are likely to vote for him in the presidential election.
In the 2012 presidential election, according to the 2012 post-election National Asian American Survey, 16 percent of Indian Americans voted for the Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Indian Americans have historically voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic Party. But the sharp drop in even the small percentage voting for the Republican candidate between 2012 and 2016 suggests that Trump’s rhetoric has cost, rather than won, him votes from Indian Americans.]
What’s kind of surprising is the fact that Chinese Americans are more likely to vote for the GOP than Hindus are:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/obama-asian-americans-voted-republican-gop-wants-bring-them-back-n873401
[Chinese Americans are indeed a voting group to watch since their support for the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, appeared to wane compared to President Barack Obama in 2012.
While Obama got 69 percent of their vote in 2012, Clinton took just 61 percent in 2016, according to the National Asian American Survey.
This is important, Ramakrishnan said, because Chinese Americans make up the largest segment of the Asian-American vote.]
I think the principal difference between Chinese and Indian emigres is that (1) economic motivations for emigration are a smaller factor in China, because Chinese incomes are 4x India’s*, and there’s less of an economic push to move abroad, (2) political and religious persecution is a factor in Chinese emigration that it isn’t in democratic India. As a result, Chinese emigres are more likely to support the political party opposed to China’s ruling party, much as Cuban emigres are generally opposed to Castro. Stateside, that party is the GOP.
Chinese Americans in, of all places, NYC, are also said to be staunchly opposed to racial quotas:
Which is to say, affirmative action. Just 38 percent of Chinese American voters think it’s a good thing, according to AAPI Data, compared to 78 percent of Indian Americans.
That’s playing out in different ways, such as a lawsuit against Harvard, brought by plaintiffs who think the university penalizes Asian American applicants, as well as recent protests against the administration of Mayor Bill De Blasio.
Stanley Ng, an opponent of the administration’s plan to end New York’s test for Specialized High Schools, argued that the test fosters a meritocracy — which is why he likes that Chinese Americans are getting renewed attention from the GOP.
“They’re saying the right things... and they’re saying we should vote Republican,” said Ng, who added that Chinese Americans are in turn “beginning to listen.”]
* This is reflected in car sales - China’s are 10x India’s, despite both countries having roughly the same population. GM’s annual unit sales in China alone are higher than India’s total annual car sales.
And even the job selling shoes now requires a college degree.
Yup...questions?
Why are they eligible for anything?
Is this one of the many reasons that SS is such an unmitigated mess?
Tell you one thing about East Indians: You don’t ever see their kids in jail.
The ones I know don’t just despise political correctness - they despise politics. Also, since their whole lives they’ve seen “preferred minorities” cast themselves as victims while raking in free sh!t, they don’t believe racial harmony is attainable - and have no “white guilt” at all.
I once worked up the nerve to ask him about this. He was quite open about it being a certain "hate whitey" element in it because that is how the American education system indoctrinated them and there were a few encounters with yahoos who look at them funny, tell them they don't belong here, etc. It doesn't happen often, but once is enough to capture many of them.
Most Indians either who are Hindu or of Hindu extraction don’t like Muslims. My daughter had a Indian high school gal pal whose mother when she got mad at her kid would say “You going to act like a Muslim or a human?”
Also Indians have experienced Muslim atrocities for centuries its not new to them. Therefore their emotional reaction to 9/11 isn’t going to be the same.
One problem the GOP has to overcome with this group is a perception at least with the young ones I meet that the GOP is intolerant. They have bought into the rat meme that the GOP consists of racist evangelical rednecks. hate them because they are not WASP, etc. I point out Nikki Haley, Dnesh D’Sousa and some of them look thoughtful, maybe I have a point.
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