hui zhou-
Good to hear from you.
<<. you don't mean that DOE should fired 300 employee who download the data to a unsecured computer?>>
Without knowing more about the circumstances, I find that hard to answer with certainty. But the answer I would give is "Yes, quite possibly." When you choose to work in a classified environment you agree to live by the rules the government sets up. It's really that simple, and I think it is fair. Some of the government labs seem to have had a failure in security oversight, and that would need to be taken into consideration when deciding upon the appropriate disciplinary steps. But I will state I have worked in environments in which if you intentionally violated established procedure- or even unintentionally, and did not report it- you were history. Security procedures are frequently cumbersome, and sometimes downright aggravating, but to the best of my knowledge, nobody at the places I've worked questioned the system or tried to circumvent it.
Your article is interesting. I wish you had stated what your objections were. Take the case of Fred Lau. I'm not a cop, and don't really know what it takes to be a cop. But I don't think that things like physical requirements- including size restrictions- are necessarily bad ideas. I can easily see that physical requirements for a cop on the beat might be different from that of the chief of police- but of course, most police departments want a chief who progressed through the ranks. Is it fair? Well, perhaps not. Anyone who expects life to be "fair" is in for a lot of disappointment- life is inherently not a fair proposition.
When U.S.-China relations sour, inevitably there is a backlash against Chinese Americans, Hsi said.>>
I have not personally seen this. Have you? I wonder why Mr. Hsi says it.
<<"People always make fun of my accent," says Su, who spoke in broken, but understandable English. "They don't have a good image of Chinese people".>>
Unpleasant to have to deal with, I am sure. And we can agree, it is more a measure of the people who make fun of his accent than it is of Mr. Su. His children presumably won't encounter that problem. But I think that Mr. Su needs to realize that not all "making fun" is injurious or even intended to hurt or demean. When I was in France, I was able to laugh with those who laughed at me when the best sense my companions could make of my inquiry about headlights and taillights on cars translated as, "Which is prettier, my face or my ass?"
<<The strategy was to declare these Asian immigrants as unassimilatable and treat them like foreigners>>
That might be true of the first generation. But I don't really think it was a conscious "strategy"- there wasn't much planning involved. I think- and fervently hope- it is not true in this country for Americans of Asian ancestry who grew up here and "think American". Will "funny looking" people encounter discrimination? I suppose they will always be able to find it. I don't think it need constrain their lives in the USA, and I suspect this country does, overall, a better job of accepting those who are ethnically "different" than the vast majority- quite possibly all- of the nations on this planet. Finally, I would note the verdict of the Asian world can be measured by the people- particularly the non-elites- who have "voted with their feet" to move to the US.
Regards,
Larry |
