[Captain Ahab Jr]

I work in a very fast paced, extremely high tech industry where every single company has a large % of foreign workers. The company I work for out of all the companies in the industry has more reason not to hire foreign workers but they chose to do so by actively looking at reqruiting from outside their country.

Just of the top of my head I work people from Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Czech Republic, South Africa, UK, Spain, Switzerland, India, Canada, Slovenia etc Nationality does not come into it as quality always shines through, has nothing to do with race, colour, nationality. Has everything to do with education, training, atitude and experience.

In 18yrs I have only worked with 3 Americans (1 was crap, 1 wore a tin foil hat and 1 is good at what he does). Don't want to paint with broad strokes but generally they just don't have the right degree's, previous experience and are quite reluctant to leave the USA.

I think from your experience you are talking about hiring on price which has nothing to do with nationaliity,