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Bettina's avatar

Obviously the Asians are not out-competing the West, they are just more willing to be enslaved in industries created by others with imagination and an appetite for risk. Why else do they want visas to come and work here? Even 50 or 60 years ago, I remember my father telling me that the Chinese were very good at copying, but not inventing. That was quite a sweeping statement, but it stands to reason that if you are indoctrinated from a young age to learn by rote and conform and jump through hoops and never pursue any imaginative leisure activity or even to simply follow your individual passions or interests, you are not suddenly going to have original ideas.

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In addition to all you wrote I would add that levels of nepotism and corruption amongst especially Indian immigrants are very high. It’s hard to take arguments about meritocracy seriously when it seems like Indians only ever hire other Indians and there is mass exploitation of high trust systems (Toronto food banks, minority business loan programs, etc).

For current Indian immigrants I think the best strategy would be to pull the ladder up behind them and take a couple decades to let assimilation do its work. Flooding the zone with co-ethnics like the non-us anglosphere did the last ten years will not leave you in a better position.

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