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There's a surprisingly large number of Iranians doing great work in Canadian universities. I'm not particularly well-versed in why, but it seems that smart peop
by slavik81 10y ago
There's a surprisingly large number of Iranians doing great work in Canadian universities. I'm not particularly well-versed in why, but it seems that smart people have both means and motive to emigrate.
- rossng 10y agoIran is a pretty highly-developed country with a population of 83 million people, so I don't think that's too surprising. There's a perception gap due to the western world's treatment of Iran. Maybe we shouldn't have overthrown their government and installed a dictator in the 1950s.
- stuxnet79 10y agoCan confirm this, and this spans all fields of study. They are doing great work. Canadian universities are choke full of immigrants of all kinds though (I'm one).
- farhang 10y agoIran's brain drain is the reason http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2014/02/02/why_does_iran_have_a_serious_brain_drain_problem.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2014/02/02/why_does_iran_ha...