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Originally posted by fastpat
Number one, that wasn't opinion, it was an article based on actual fact.

Number two, it wasn't my opinion, but if I were to write an article that extensive, please be assured it would strive to be as lucid.

And last, do you want to argue facts, or prose styles, or something else?

Actually Pat, I don't recall seeing a single fact or statistic quoted in that article. The last time I heard, it was roughly 50,000 American engineers graduate for every 500,000 Japanese and Chinese engineers. Why they lump those two together I have no clue, I don't gather the data. The article is complete crap, it reads like something from a blog, all opinion and conspiracy theories.

I am an Aerospace Engineering student at Wichita State University, right here in the good old red state of KS. As a white guy, I can now say that I know what it is like to be a minority. Every department is dominated by people from other countries. And when I say from other countries, I mean from other countries, only here for school. I'm not even lumping immigrant families into this. The bulk of our teachers are foreign as well. Many of these students study in the US, then take their knowledge back home. We have a huge outflux of knowledge right now, so it's not surprising that the US is falling behind in innovation in many technical and industrial fields. Despite globalization, we are still in competition with other countries to stay on the leading edge of innovation, and we are losing. Knowledge is power, right?

What's wrong with encouraging students to take the hard road, and to fill a need as they do so? Most people I know went to school and got a business degree, now they're making $25k as an assistant manager at Target.