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Baraka_Guru · 10-20-2010, 05:47 AM

KirStang, you bring up a couple of important points.

1) One problem with American innovation and unemployment right now is that there is a job pool that's mismatched with the worker pool in some key areas. One solution to this is a strategic immigration policy that attracts missing talent.

2) The point about the training of foreign Ph.D.s: Education is largely considered an export service. In Canada, our educational institutions are increasingly attracting foreign students. The goal isn't to make them Canadian, the goal is to have them as clients.

Then you have that German problem of foreign workers. What you have there is sizable and alienated population of Turks who aren't integrated with German society. They weren't meant to integrate because they weren't meant to be German.

It's messy.

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Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	KirStang, you bring up a couple of important points. 1) One problem with American innovation and unemployment right now is that there is a job pool that's mismatched with the worker pool in some key areas. One solution to this is a strategic immigration policy that attracts missing talent. 2) The point about the training of foreign Ph.D.s: Education is largely considered an export service. In Canada, our educational institutions are increasingly attracting foreign students. The goal isn't to make them Canadian, the goal is to have them as clients. Then you have that German problem of foreign workers. What you have there is sizable and alienated population of Turks who aren't integrated with German society. They weren't meant to integrate because they weren't meant to be German. It's messy. __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 10-20-2010 at 05:49 AM..