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Originally Posted by akv
To me what makes us exceptional is anyone can come here and become accepted as an American. I think some keys to this are you have to be willing to assimilate, learn English, and be a good citizen since all of us have ancestry abroad at some point. This is unique to America. Europe is not like this, even if someone is fluent, native born they are not considered a Frenchman or easily labeled an " Auslander" in Germany. A homogeneous society is thus much more vulnerable to the trap of multiculturalism.
The net result of this is a culture of the freedom to excel which incents the best and brightest both domestically and from abroad. Yes, our schools have challenges, but there still isn't another place in the world even close on the scale of innovation, creativity, and technology as America.
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akv,
My intention is not to beat up on anyone, or to show America in a bad light, just want to present some sobering facts.
SnT
You must have missed my comment about our world standing in Education, with International rankings of 35th place for Math, and 27th Place for Science (2012).
https://edsource.org/2013/u-s-scores...mparison/52052
Next, let us separate Education from innovation, creativity, and Technology.
American Education today is a shadow of what it was as late as 1980. Test scores have fallen every year since .
•In 2014, the average score on the SAT verbal test was near a historic lows at 497 (slightly above the lowest mean scores of 496 recorded in 2012 and 2013)
•The mean score for the relatively new SAT writing test scores hit its lowest point in 2014. In the eight years since the test was first administered in 2006, the score has declined ten points.
http://www.humanitiesindicators.org/...rdoc.aspx?i=23
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One anecdote is IIT, the best technology college in India. The top students from an English speaking Democratic population that size are as a rule brilliant. They lose this talent to Silicon Valley at an alarming rate. They come for the same opportunity European immigrants came before, the freedom to succeed and also be accepted.
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Hate to burst your bubble, but ,at the last company I worked for, we recruited heavily from IIT ( and their peers). In every interview, without exception, the deciding factor was MONEY, period, paragraph. 22 year old Indian kids are just like very intelligent capitalist American kids......Show me the money, I can make my own opportunity.
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INNOVATION, CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY
China builds world’s fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips
There is no U.S.-made system that comes close to the performance of China's new system, the Sunway TaihuLight.
China on Monday revealed its latest supercomputer, a monolithic system with 10.65 million compute cores
built entirely with Chinese microprocessors. This follows a U.S. government decision last year to deny China access to Intel's fastest microprocessors.
The most important thing about Sunway TaihuLight may be its microprocessors. In the past, China has relied heavily on U.S. microprocessors in building its supercomputing capacity. The world's next fastest system, China's Tianhe-2, which has a peak performance of 54.9 petaflops, uses Intel Xeon processors.
TaihuLight, which is installed at China's National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, uses ShenWei CPUs developed by Jiangnan Computing Research Lab in Wuxi. The operating system is a Linux-based Chinese system called Sunway Raise.
China now has more supercomputers in the Top500 list than the U.S., said Dongarra. "China has 167 systems on the June 2016 Top500 list compared to 165 systems in the U.S," he said, in an email. Ten years ago, China had 10 systems on the list.
http://www.computerworld.com/article...u-s-chips.html