The Threat of the "Chindians"
Is it just me or is the Chosun trying to make this an anti-Chinese and Indian article?:
Korean students in the U.S. increasingly find themselves in competition with their counterparts from China and India. In major U.S. cities like New York and Washington D.C., an influx of Chinese and Indian students have emerged as rivals for Korean students when it comes to places at university and jobs. Even overseas, in other words, Koreans find themselves “sandwichedâ€, as the catchword has it, by economically and academically more agile powers.
Read the rest but the tone of the article suggests Koreans are supposed to have some God given right to the best universities and jobs in the US.Â
Students with better academic records getting the jobs instead? What an outrage.
Well actually for years now Koreans have been told that employers prefer NOT to hire them … Why? Simply because Koreans don't stay in the USA like other groups. If an employer hired an individual from India she/he would most likely transplant their family to the United States – long term. Koreans, on the other hand, always returned to the 'motherland'
Jane,
Interesting comment, I wonder if it legal to implement a practice like that?
"Even overseas, in other words, Koreans find themselves “sandwichedâ€, as the catchword has it, by economically and academically more agile powers."
That wins the prize as the most ignorant statement in the whole awful "developing giant peril" piece. With millions of people still in extreme poverty, India and China are not "economically more agile" than Korea; nor are Indian and Chinese students "academically more agile than Korea, a country that consistently ranks in the top five on international academic achievement tests." The difference is in population. India and China each have more than twenty-five times as many people as Korea. India and China have a long way to go before catching up to Korea, which sends a much larger proportion of its young people overseas. With more and more Indian and Chinese students having the economic means to study overseas, Koreans had better get used to the competition.
"Well actually for years now Koreans have been told that employers prefer NOT to hire them …"
"Been told"? By whom? As recently as 2005, Korea ranked seventh among countries of birth for US immigrants. Looks like quite a few Koreans have decided not to return to the motherland.
"With millions of people still in extreme poverty, India and China are not “economically more agile†than Korea; nor are Indian and Chinese students “academically more agile than Korea, a country that consistently ranks in the top five on international academic achievement tests.†"
Crude nationalism hinders the common sense and judgment.
Crude nationalism? My handle's Korean, but I'm not.
More evidence that many well-educated Koreans choose to make a life in the US rather than repatriate:
The ratio of U.S. doctoral degree holders who do not come back to Korea rose to 46.3 percent between 2000 to 2003 from 20.2 percent during 1992 to 1995. The U.S.-based National Science Foundation Network conducted a study in 2004 that showed 73.9 percent of Korean doctoral degree holders in the U.S. planned to stay there.
from Korea's Brain Drain Is Getting Serious
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/20070…
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