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I find it kind of idealistic that these neoliberal publications think that a constant stream of well educated immigrants will always be available and the countr

I find it kind of idealistic that these neoliberal publications think that a constant stream of well educated immigrants will always be available and the countries paying to educate them won't try harder to retain them (for example through propaganda or economic incentives) I read somewhere that in German schools they teach material critical of "The American Dream", could be because they're afraid of brain drain [0] and have one of the highest emigration rates in the EU I'm honestly surprised that the current system is even a thing: countries from all over the world paying a bunch of money to educate people just to have the Anglosphere drain a significant portion of the human capital [0] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-eu-emigrants-by-country/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-eu-emigrants-by-cou...

jaynetics 2y ago
> in German schools they teach material critical of "The American Dream", could be because they're afraid of brain drain As someone who went to school and has kids in school in Germany, I'll say "citation needed". Lessons in history and politics are very navel gazing here (as they should be, we do have a few things to work through). America and the 21st century don't feature enough to reach a subjective level of detail. For Germans who want to earn more, Switzerland is the easy choice either for emigration or simply commuting. With the rise in remote work, I would assume that in the next decade(s), other drivers of our emigration won't favor the US either: - refugees wanting to return to their home once things calm down there - climate - rise of right wing politics, especially in East Germany - interest in substantially different cultures
- matrix87 2y ago
  > citation needed not a great citation, maybe like one textbook. Americans probably find the criticism more sensational than Germans https://www.studocu.com/de/document/schule-deutschland/englisch/englisch-abitur/8797947 https://www.studocu.com/de/document/schule-deutschland/engli... https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/toj93d/german_school_book/ https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/toj93d/german_scho...
  - JumpCrisscross 2y ago
    This is milquetoast. For comparison, the positive side is almost absent in my kids’ curriculum in California.

jaynetics 2y ago

> in German schools they teach material critical of "The American Dream", could be because they're afraid of brain drain As someone who went to school and has kids in school in Germany, I'll say "citation needed". Lessons in history and politics are very navel gazing here (as they should be, we do have a few things to work through). America and the 21st century don't feature enough to reach a subjective level of detail. For Germans who want to earn more, Switzerland is the easy choice either for emigration or simply commuting. With the rise in remote work, I would assume that in the next decade(s), other drivers of our emigration won't favor the US either: - refugees wanting to return to their home once things calm down there - climate - rise of right wing politics, especially in East Germany - interest in substantially different cultures

matrix87 2y ago
> citation needed not a great citation, maybe like one textbook. Americans probably find the criticism more sensational than Germans https://www.studocu.com/de/document/schule-deutschland/englisch/englisch-abitur/8797947 https://www.studocu.com/de/document/schule-deutschland/engli... https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/toj93d/german_school_book/ https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/toj93d/german_scho...
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  This is milquetoast. For comparison, the positive side is almost absent in my kids’ curriculum in California.