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From: reggie@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Are Americans Intellectually Inferior?
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Date: 31 Jan 89 11:34:51 GMT
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Reply-To: reggie@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (George W. Leach)
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In article <00Uvr19Q3V1010d85Q6@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> johnm@uts.amdahl.com (John Murray) writes:
>In article <19554@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, matloff@bizet.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Matloff) writes:

>> Immigrant Asian-Americans tend to have a fantastically good "network,"
>> so they know that there are lots of openings for computer engineers,
>> and that one can get a good salary in this line of work.  Many of the
>> non-Asians do not know this.  I wonder if this knowledge would change 
>> their aspirations?

>This "network" phenomenon is not peculiar to Asian immigrants - or to
>computer engineering for that matter. It's a by-product of the "ghetto-
>forming" process which occurs among immigrants from many backgrounds. For
>example, much of the fresh vegetable trade in New York seems to be in the
>hands of people with a Korean background, many Irish immigrants end up in
>the bar trade, police, construction, etc.


      I lived in a very ethnic neighborhood in New York and grew up next to
an ethnic town in New Jersey.  The "network" is used to get friends and family
members into this country, legally or illegally, and to set them up with a
place to live, a job, some new friends, etc.....  People help friends of
friends for the same reason that you may stop your car to help someone change
a flat tire.  Someday one of your loved ones may need similar help and you 
hope that a kind person will be there for them when you can not.




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