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[Currently, immigration law dictates that only 7 percent of the green cards issued each year can be given to residents of any one country. Mr. Yoder noted that
by kumarm 9y ago
[Currently, immigration law dictates that only 7 percent of the green cards issued each year can be given to residents of any one country.
Mr. Yoder noted that between 230,000 and two million Indian workers are in line for a green card, which means that they could be waiting for decades, if not longer.]
It really puts Immigrants from populous countries like India and China at disadvantage. Personally I waited for 12 years to get my green card to start my company as Internet boom, Web2.0 boom passed in front of my eyes.
- eanzenberg 9y agoI mean that limitation makes sense when optimizing for diversity.
- bryanlarsen 9y agoThe genetic & cultural differences between two random Indian provinces is probably far larger than between Sweden & Norway.
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- calvinbhai 9y agoYou are right. Only thing that needs to be changed is instead of taking population of a country as a metric, should consider race, language, and particular god the applicant believes in as a metric, if it is truly "optimizing for diversity". The way it stands, all Caucasian, Jesus believing (or not believing) europeans or the Arabic, Allah believing (or not believing) middle-eastern populations have no line, but wide variety (language, god / religious belief, race) of people from India have a long line, because its been "optimized for diversity" Its just an "Indians and Chinese Exclusion Act" similar to Chinese Exclusion Act under the garb of "Diversity".
- jbob2000 9y agoThis is a good thing. You end up with cultural ghettos if too many people from one culture move to a place too quickly.
- saalweachter 9y agoYeah, the Midwest's culture was irreparably damaged by the large numbers of Germans and Scandinavians who moved there all at once.
- nucleardog 9y agoI get the knee-jerk reaction to anything like this is to shout "THAT'S RACIST" and get on with life, but this is definitely a thing that's happening. Whether it's damaging or not is a separate question. My partner is, for the sake of argument and to remove emotion, let's say Romulan. She came here from Romulus over 10 years ago to attend school. Her parents have started coming here in the past year or two on and off. In the couple years I've been with her, I've come to discover there's an entire shadow society of Romulans operating within the city I live in that doesn't operate by the laws or regulations that the rest of society operates under. Admission is granted on the basis of being Romulan. None of these people, including my partner for the first decade she was here, really have or had any incentive to participate in the existing society. It's much less effort to only associate with other Romulans. They have more immediately in common with them, and fewer barriers. And they can get everything they need from the other Romulans. I have no wish for these people to give up their culture. Our existing culture is described as a "cultural mosaic" - many people's own cultures getting along. I think that's just fine. And I appreciate getting to experience everyone's culture (within the bounds of some basic ideals such as our stance towards human rights and equality). The isolation does concern me. If there's no effort to intentionally cohabitate except in the sense of physical proximity - to just generally understand each other - I can see an issue of empathy arising. I can see some pretty destructive divides forming or deepening, as in the case of the current xenophobia. I don't think that's sustainable long term.
- fapjacks 9y ago