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This country needs to fail. The world needs a bold example to realize that no economy exempt from corrosion due to inner perversities. I came to America with a
by mbadisaster 14y ago
This country needs to fail. The world needs a bold example to realize that no economy exempt from corrosion due to inner perversities.
I came to America with a lot of ideas,energy and passion. I came as a successful professional with experience and with great hopes of contributing. I chose to enroll in a graduate level program in order to validate my skills and join "the system".
But today I take that plane. The plane that takes you back to your home country as a failure. The plane that carries indebted, unemployed, suicidal and "broken-in-a-thousand-pieces" international MBA students.
My first mistake was believing in graduate education. A system that is completely broken and one that relies on lies to become self sustainable. After enrolling, I quickly found out how my school polished its recruitment figures, how they sugar-coat everything and how they make bad things look good. This was the first blow. Realizing that America lies to us international students in order to boosts figures and make their programs more appealing to national students. Pretty soon I discovered this practice was commonplace across every school.
I discovered that 25% of international students default their loans. But school officials don't tell you that. Discrimination is rampant, that the tell you, however nothing can prepare you for the forthcoming crude reality: you're being set up for failure.
You'll be treated like a slave, with no immigration options other than the current messed up status quo. You'll make no friends because "the whities" party on their own. And you'll need to wait at least a decade for that "green-card". Oh, wait, you owe us 200K dollars for an education that's substantially inferior to the one you received in your home country. I expected some of this, but not to this extent. The educational experience, "the contacts" and "the help" I received only amount to one thing: Grand Fiasco.
The extent of this exploitation has no limits. America doesn't validate foreign titles and, allows for thousands of Cuban PHDs that make a living driving cabs in Florida. You can't come to this country based on your skills, you need a patron: An employer or a university. Slavery anyone!
Indians have to wait in line for decades just to get a level of pay that will be comparable to what they where earning in the home countries. The Chinese must be content with middle-management jobs with no hopes of promotion because they're synonym to "grunt-workers". And Latinos, even engineers, most have to work as freelancers because their titles are not recognized by the government (even when the American universities they came to study in did recognized those titles).
But you know what, all this is fine with me. I can live with that level of filth. So far this only amounts to "Wall Street level" shit.
The fun part comes later, after graduation. That's when it really gets to you. When you go to a dinner party with your fellow classmates and get asked that nice question by the white guy that didn't get a job and almost didn't graduate. That golden moment when he asks you: "Did you get your papers?".
And then I came to me. The sadistic Americans need to pick on someone to justify their problems. It's because of the republicans, the blacks, Bin Laden or the Latino rice pickers!
Its ALWAYS somebody else. And WE have to create a "jail-like" system in order to prevent our white Ivy-educated pricks from shacking the hands of "unholy" international students.
America is broken. Perversity starts in the college rankings and then perpetuates in the business world. Lies, fraud, heavy drug use, discrimination, promiscuity, exploitation and under-achievement, these are but a few traits of the broken educational system.
I never thought I would find myself in this situation. Seeking to disassociate from my university after graduation from an elite MBA program, jobless, discriminated and labeled as a failure by hundreds. Indeed, God Bless America. This country is in dire need of miracles.
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