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To: arun gera who wrote (2286)	11/20/2005 11:50:49 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217804

Arun, high-tech is for Asians as football is for Brazilians. They invest a hell of a lot of effort to get the best degree (or the best football performance) as the sole way to escape their origins. And a guy hell bent on escaping his origins is a formidable competitor. The average western kid is not hell bent in dominating football. The average kid is not hell bent in make the best out of school to get into top high tech. In my book: 1989 India’s institute of technology keeps producing high qualified people for export to the U.S., Canada, UK and Australia. “A survey of 1986 graduates has shown that nearly half of the graduates are now abroad. ...An average $12.000 is spent on each IIT graduate in subsidies. According to officials estimates, the annual loss from migration by the institutes’ graduates could be more than $4.5 million.” South, Nov. 1989.

To: arun gera who wrote (2286)	11/21/2005 3:29:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217804

<Asians comprise a highly disproportionate share in the high tech sector. Look at Maurice's favorite - Qualcomm. Look at the top 5 technology people at Yahoo, Google, Sun Microsystems, Bell Labs, or at the leading VCs. Microsoft has a large number of asians just under the top layer. By your logic, where do all the brilliant women go.> Back in the 1980s, I used to bemoan the extorquerationate cost of BP's research centre at Sunbury and even worse was Deustche BP [when involved with getting research done in BP]. I wanted BP to set up R&D in China and India where there were millions of brilliant people [including women] paddling around in paddy fields who would jump at the chance of getting loads of money and a more interesting life. I thought education should be included - hire them at age 12 as educational apprentices. They could learn and work at the same time. I didn't get far with that [it wasn't my job, I just said what I thought to anyone who would listen]. 12 year olds are perfectly capable of earning money doing technical work in laboratories, while learning from others. QUALCOMM is now doing some Indian and Chinese hiring in those countries. I think they should move into the education system and establish schools for apprentices who would work and learn. Political ideology of the countries is a problem - trying that in NZ would have credentialist, anti-big-business, xenophobic, Big Government, statist, lowest-common-denominator drooling mobs opposing the idea. Maybe that would be the case in India and China too. Mqurice