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My Chinese STEP colleagues have or plan to go back. Too many cultural and political impediments to progress here now.
by intrasight 8y ago
My Chinese STEP colleagues have or plan to go back. Too many cultural and political impediments to progress here now.
- icantdrive55 8y agoCould you elaborate? What are the cultural, and political impediments for Chinese STEM graduates? I was under the impression that those days were over, unless you happen to be part of my lineage?
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoIs that new? Because the trend has been very stabke for the past 10 years: fuerdai kids (with rich parents) who come to america to study major in liberal arts and business but will almost always go back because that is where their connections are. These are relatively new foreign students in the USA and constitute much of the recent boom. The more tradition Chinese students who have been coming here since the 1980s (and don’t have very rich parents) mostly pick STEM majors. On graduating, they would rather work for Google in Mountain View than Tencent in Shenzhen.