July 21, 2004
THAT GIANT SUCKING SOUND--US ABSORBING THEIR BEST:
mmigrants' kids: Nation's brainy superstars (Scott Stephens, July 20, 2004, Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Give us your tired, your poor . . . your scientists and your mathematicians.The children of immigrants are becoming the top math and science students in the United States, dominating academic competitions and representing the strongest hope the nation has of keeping an edge in high-tech and biomedical fields, according to a study released Monday.
The National Foundation for American Policy, based in Arlington, Va., found that foreign-born professionals and students are contributing more to American society than first thought, and that their children are the nation's rising intellectual superstars.
"If opponents of immigration had succeeded over the past 20 years, two-thirds of the most outstanding future American scientists and mathematicians would not be here today because U.S. policy would have barred their parents from entering the United States," NFAP Executive Director Stuart Anderson, who authored the report, said at a news conference.
The study found, for example, that 60 percent of the finalists in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, 65 percent of the U.S. Math Olympiad's top scorers and 46 percent of the U.S. Physics Team members are children of immigrants.
Every time one of these immigrant kids makes good a stupid native kid loses an opportunity. Do we really want our doctors to be competent instead of white? Posted by Orrin Judd at July 21, 2004 2:42 PM
This is obvious to anyone who enters a roomful of researchers, but it's been going on since at least 1945.
On the other hand, as Gilbert Shelton titled his collection of Wonder Warthog comix, it's "Not only the best . . . "
My paper publishes the names of everybody who is convicted of drunken driving. One group of immigrants is way overrepresented.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at July 21, 2004 2:55 PMI work at the IT center for a certain major US auto manufaturer.
Anglo-Saxons are very thin on the ground there.
Just like evolution, the US is a giant eugenics experiment.
Posted by: Jeff Guinn at July 21, 2004 5:21 PMGod Bless The immigrants who do well. Hopefully, parents will inculcate the love of education to our American born children.
Posted by: Robert at July 21, 2004 8:23 PMHere in Hawaii, it was very noticeable that Koreans and Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century did everything to inculcate love of education in their children, while Filipinos did everything they could to keep their children from becoming educated.
When I lived in Iowa, I heard many stories about how rural German immigrants opposed educating their children.
Where you start has a big influence on where you finish.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at July 21, 2004 11:53 PMYeah, that German-American poverty cycle is notorious.
Posted by: oj at July 22, 2004 12:00 AMYou have to know where to look.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at July 22, 2004 3:43 PMArea 51?
Posted by: oj at July 22, 2004 3:48 PMSoutheastern Iowa
York, Pennsylvania
That's two I know personally
Posted by: Harry Eagar at July 24, 2004 10:00 PMTheir comparative poverty levels to other ethnic groups in those regions look pretty good though, suggesting that their religion was a help rather than a hindrance while it was other cultural or geographical or whatever properties that led to higher poverty rates among all groups in those regions.
Posted by: oj at July 24, 2004 11:32 PM