>>Still, if the US is so bad, I have to wonder why so many Chinese come to the US<<
A lot of reasons:
Most popular one: life is easier in the US - lower population density, less competition, less pollution… Amazingly, a lot of Chinese who have not done well, after coming to the US and got a Master/Ph.D degree, the quality of their personal life improved plenty. Although things are changing. And now less and less Chinese are willing come to the US, and much more are willing to go back to China after they got their degree, comparing to a decade ago.
And it is still much harder to go into a college in China comparing to in the US because of the competition.
Another reason, for their children. China has a huge population, and thus the competition is much more severe. An easy example, children with a mediocre grade in school in China can usually become a top performer in the US school once they overcome the language problem. There are a lot of research has shown the US K-10 education is pretty inefficient comparing to other developed countries, and they usually perform worse in the International competition. And I have some friends who want to go back now, but have not because of their children too. Children returned to China can hardly catch up if they join the same grade, not only because of they are weak in Chinese, they cannot catch up even in Mathematics, or other fields do not have much to do with language. Again, because of the different standard of K-10 education. As for higher education, the equipment in US universities are much better, after all China is a developing country, still poor.
More reason, the unemployment rate is quite high in China now, much higher than in the US for sure. And the competition is very bad. In my own case, I do not think I can get a decent job if I go back to China now. But for sure, I would stay my retirement life back in China in future.
Few, if any, come to the US because of the so-called political freedom. Yeah, there were/are some Chinese come to the US for “political asylum”. But they are far from typical. And I even know a couple of Chinese who are applying “political asylum” now, and the only reason for them to do so is because they are less competitive, and cannot get a permanent visa through a decent mean, and they are NOT going to be persecuted if they return to China as they claimed, they just want to stay here to live an easier life.
>> If China is so good, why don't I see a massive departure of Americans wanting to migrate to China?<<
You must be kidding me. Even if you have a little knowledge on why people migrate, you would not have asked this type of question.
Why China adopted the one-child policy? Because the natural resource in China can hardly sustain the population as of now. And please do me a favor, do not even start me on the family planning policy in China. Go live in a big city in China for a year, and experience personally for that kind of density, physical space. Then speak from a local person point of view about whether the Chinese gov. should adopt a strict family-planning policy.
I guess I really could not afford this kind of posting. I have a life to live except this<g> |
