Dr. Michio Kaku America Has A Secret Weapon

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EGreg · 2020-04 · Reference

I always had the impression that Russians are more serious. Also Americans have developed tons of expressions for every nuance of greasing the wheels for business and relationships. Russians are more straightforward. So it is with the kids. I don’t think there was a lot of “participation trophies” and idea that “you’re a winner just for trying”. It was realistic. Women in Russia are told to look beautiful by their mothers, for example, and they are expected wear makeup and heels just going out to the store or to work. Imagine a US mother saying that. STEM in Russia and China’s schools is wayyy more advanced than USA. Not just in Moscow but every city center in every former Soviet republic. It’s one of the things the Communists really instilled early on after taking over backwaters (at the time) like Uzbekistan (along with equal rights for women, 95% literacy and electricity). Compare that to pre-revolutionary Cuba or Hawaii, for instance, that USA took over. I think right around Sputnik time and the cold war, the US had a major STEM crisis and started trying to teach math more. But really, most of our brightest students are just imported - and they’re happy to come. Gonna drop this one in there, from Dr Kaku, on a panel discussing this exact question: [VIDEO]

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EGreg · 2019-01 · Reference

Some people can mean a few people. So what if a few people hate engineers and HN? They are extremely valuable and look how the world has been improved because of them. Perhaps by some, you meant many? Then you should come out and say it. And even if many people hated engineers, that would still not mean engineers must change. In the 1960s the USA had a math and science crisis in schools. Russia was far ahead in engineers, possibly because the culture didn’t really put down “nerds and geeks” as much as in the USA. Blaming the victim for using precise language is perhaps missing the point. The US with its huge population desperately played catch-up in STEM until the H1B visa saved the day! It’s not just my opinion, that’s what Kaku says, among SOME, perhaps MILLIONS, of others: [VIDEO]

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__m · 2018-06 · Reference

That doesn't seem to be the current administration's goal. H-1B Visa, America's secret weapon: [VIDEO]

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