opening up to the general TL shape my object level view if you wannahttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/955970580032864257 …
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A lot of the chinese immigrants I've met are going into either medicine or becoming real estate agents. The number of doctors is limited by med school slots, and there are already enough good applicants. Our institutions cannot manage this kind of incentivized bottleneck.
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There are already too many real estate agents in the area, each doing far fewer sales than they could handle, but each is highly profitable. Rates can't be lowered because then incentives are bad, plus they're sort of standardized between real estate agents.
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I know many people who have had Chinese professors, and they're almost universally considered bad teachers.
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I once dealt with a Chinese immigrant patent examiner who could hardly speak english. He gamed their "points" system as hard as he could and did well within the bureaucracy despite being completely incompetent.
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there's also the issue of values, eg free speech: http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2017/11/free-speech-absolutism.html …
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Finally, there's the issue that Lee Kuan Yew noted, where without an ethnic supermajority, politics becomes ethnicized. It appears the US has recently reached that threshold: http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2017/08/generation-zyklons-white-guys-favored.html …
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Now, to be clear, I'm not saying the US should necessarily take fewer asian immigrants, I'm just pointing out that there are issues to be considered here.
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If you say "demographics is destiny" then you need to take the correct mix of immigrants so their flaws cancel out, and you don't get the education obsession of South Korea, the authoritarian nature of China, the blind trust in government and inefficient work culture of Japan....
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