He told me that many promising students from third world countries are often sent to American and European universities at the expense of their governments or foundations with the specific idea of bringing back first world methods and knowledge to their home countries. Once they see and experience the first world lifestyle first hand, it is a serious temptation to abandon their sponsors and their commitment and just look out for themselves.
An extreme example is the dictator of Zimbabwe, who used his first class education to turn what once was the breadbasket of southern Africa into the basket case of southern Africa. More common are those who see the opportunity to work in America for a few years as an opportunity to earn more than they could in a lifetime back home. They tell themselves it is just an extension of their education which will be repaid when they go back home. Of course, few ever do.
So these programs are, in effect, not only robbing Americans but also the various countries to which their most promising students never return.
Your comments are apt. The lunacy you help expose is also, in part, connected with the now several generation old attack by Leftist pseudo-intellectuals on the very concept of a Nation, and one’s duties thereto. Ultimately one realizes that there is absolutely nothing really idealistic or altruistic in the machinations of the Left. They are a curse on every people on this earth.