Response To Respose To Vivek Wadhwa's Article On Immigrants Returning
Vivek Wadhwa posted an article on BusinessWeek relating to new immigrants returning home rather than making the US their permanent home. The link is here.
The article was linked on The Huffington Post. Naturally, I had to respond. Here's the text of my response:
The downward spiral for any great society throughout history has begun when complacency set in, or for a more complex set of reasons, forward momentum in the populace slowly degraded. The US has countered this so far and perhaps we can count the waves of new immigrants as being one critical factor, if not the key to this.
However, with a flattening world, the inertia that America has so far displayed is bound to be matched or overshadowed by the aspirations of other nations. It's a postmodern reality that there will probably be no single point of attraction - I know fellow Indians back in the old country looking to make their way in the world and gazing eastwards to New Zealand of all places. This is what Wadhwa was warning about in his article.
Before you seek to make scapegoats of us new hopeful immigrants in these dire times, take a look at the hordes of your own youth hoping to become the next American Idol. When these young folks are real aces at math and science, and hanging around outside GE hoping to snag internships, then there will be good reason to quickly kill the H-1 program and send us all back.
Until then, learning a bit more about the world might be of help. And investing in the American people through education and healthcare, rather than unnecessary wars, tax cuts for the rich, and bailouts for the irresponsible.
The article was linked on The Huffington Post. Naturally, I had to respond. Here's the text of my response:
The downward spiral for any great society throughout history has begun when complacency set in, or for a more complex set of reasons, forward momentum in the populace slowly degraded. The US has countered this so far and perhaps we can count the waves of new immigrants as being one critical factor, if not the key to this.
However, with a flattening world, the inertia that America has so far displayed is bound to be matched or overshadowed by the aspirations of other nations. It's a postmodern reality that there will probably be no single point of attraction - I know fellow Indians back in the old country looking to make their way in the world and gazing eastwards to New Zealand of all places. This is what Wadhwa was warning about in his article.
Before you seek to make scapegoats of us new hopeful immigrants in these dire times, take a look at the hordes of your own youth hoping to become the next American Idol. When these young folks are real aces at math and science, and hanging around outside GE hoping to snag internships, then there will be good reason to quickly kill the H-1 program and send us all back.
Until then, learning a bit more about the world might be of help. And investing in the American people through education and healthcare, rather than unnecessary wars, tax cuts for the rich, and bailouts for the irresponsible.
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