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Originally Posted by craigepo
I wonder if, in the future, part of the US economy's exports will be the exportation of education/educated people.
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This is already happening. If you've been to any scientific PhD classes or research labs it would be quite apparent that a majority of the students/doctoral research fellows are foreign with a heavy respresentation of Asian students, particularly the Chinese.
China is export students here for advanced degrees and education and many are then returning to China to do research.
It's a fairly common practice for the female students to have children here then send the children back to China to be raised by grandparents. In the 2 years I've been at my institution I have provided care to 2 children born in the US to Chinese national post-graduate students brought back here from China for medical care after being diagnosed with cancers. Their grandparents got to tag along so the mothers could focus on their studies. The medical bills, unfortunately, aren't sent to China.
It's unfortunate that these children are getting sick, but I also believe that bringing the children (and grandparents) back for medical care is an abuse of the system.
(Rant off; I apologize for the hijack.)
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