Tech Recruiting
I say a news article in New York Times with the following title Tech Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Rules, it talks about recruiting foreign tech workers. I don't know whether it reflects bad immigration policy or failed education policy.
I was also surprised when former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan said in a morning TV show today, calling President Obama's plan to increase college graduates in US a unnecessary and elitist. The conservative's disdain for education is a bigger threat to American Power than China and India
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When Immigrant self-entitlement clashes with self-righteous American indignation, the results are interesting.
The guy is basically a self-entitled jerk, prostituting his talents to the highest bidder, motivated by nothing but material gain. In all his rantings, there is no mention of his native country - forgotten and relegated to the back of his mind.
My encounters with Indians like this are legion. They are talented. Extremely bright. And basically jerks who have no loyalty to anyone or any ideal but themselves. Materialistic to the core, they seek to surround themselves with status (e.g. pretty wife) and privilege. Some might say, that is what built America and I agree - crass materialism has it's place in society.
Two things about the article are hilarious:
1. Sanjay's desperate protestations of 'unrequited' love for the US of A. And the guy's willingness to pin the flag of any developed country that will have him on his walls. Call that loyalty? Far less love! But what more can be expected of one who dares not breathe of his native country, except when it comes to finding a pretty girl to tote as arm-jewelry?
2. The 'brainy' problem with Google Maps that nobody but Sanjay could solve! If you are telling me nobody in America could solve that problem, I'd wonder if you are seriously naive or biased. Or both. Try posting that problem on the notice-board of a community college in the US and you'll get more creative solutions than you can handle. Seriously, dudes!
Make no mistake, it isn't America that immigrants like Sanjay love but the opportunity for privilege that life in the USA represents.
Then again, American policy till now has welcomed that.