Posted on 06/22/2009 12:40:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“...you do not find the depression, the lack of hope prevalent in the West...”
If only someone could give us hope, and possibly change...
In those countries they aren’t pounded with a lifelong message of nihilism that the US population is propagandized with.
I concur that we’ve probably got them beat there.
Not to mention demanding their mothers bring their Pizza Hut pizza to the basement when it’s delivered...
Wrong.
Fluency in a foreign language is great for impressing chicks!
(I wish I had learned one.)
I will agree that the most important thing is to learn a skill that the global market values. Learning additional languages, however, is highly recommended as a supplementary skill.
BTW: Stop with the "Third World" nonsense as a) such terminology is obsolete and b) you should know where most of the economic growth in this world is coming from.
And that, in a nutshell, is part of the problem.
We wanted to be uplifted by a transcendental figure who gave us hope and made us feel good about ourselves without much exertion on our part. That would be religious figures, at least in India, or pop stars!
Cold eyed denizens of the Third World place no such hope in their politicians. They prefer calm boring technocrats like the Indian PM and finance types, and the Chinese technocrati.
Their recourse is to look to Western science and advancement and to improve upon the progress made in the West.
The Englightement Ethos lives. In the East.
“Sounds like some the areas where I work.”
We have been held back and Punished because of this Great society nonsense!!
Nothing surprising here. Surprised that we haven’t been reading articles like this every day...
The colleges here in Utah seen to graduate seriously educated and hardworking kids (judging from the Weber State
kids in my area).
BS! These companies have absolutely no desire to hire Americans in the first place. I have several certs, including ITIL and Six Sigma, but have been out of work for well over a year. These lying frauds make up their numbers and noone in the media questions it. It’s just like US intelligence agencies complaining that they are having to bring in foreigners to fill the positions, because there aren’t enough US applicants.
Rats have an incompetency factor It goes with the Word Liberal. What is more synonymous than failure and Democrat??
I had a young lady apply for my administrative assistant position. She sent in a resume where it was all blue, all curlicue font, I had to change it to Times just to be able to read it. She misspelled assistant several times. I round filed it, sent her back an email and told her to quit with the cutesy, and have someone proof read her resume, she'd have better luck getting an interview.
And what's bad is that I am a heading hunting agency. Some of these people applying are frighteningly ... stupid.
While I can’t afirm the IT sentiments of this fellow, American communications skills are atrocious.
Look at some of the posts in this thread.
At 5 PM on Fridays, these guys would often stick around to discuss their drawings or reports and how they could be improved. It only meant a couple of more minutes in the office but it revealed their work ethic.
Six sigma and ITIL are about manufacturing and production type responses. Most of American education in engineering ( unless you specifically spend time studying manufacturing or quallity)is theoretical in nature -—how do you design an IC or a turbine or a motor. What this guy really wants is a bunh of QA or manufacturing specialists who have PhDs in design ——ain’t gonna happen. Besides Chinese, Sri Lankan, and Indian grads will work for next to nothing and be grateful for the job, then come to the States on H1B visas and take jobs away from American engineers who are paid more.
Mormons (with a few notable exceptions) tend to have an excellent work ethic, in my experience.
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