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▲ throwaway384034 2 hours ago

>It has always struck me as absurd that America is so accessible to Chinese nationals.

This is what I was responding to. I'm trying to figure out how it is nonsense because India has a large population.

India already makes up like 70% of H1Bs.

▲Avicebron 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> It has always struck me as absurd that America is so accessible to Chinese nationals.

The US as a whole is accessible to a ton of foreign nationals because there was a push in like the 70s-early 2000s to offshore as much as possible to developing nations and exploit the arbitrage of wage labor back home. That was coupled with a foreign policy that was essentially trying to assimilate the cultures through that trade relation. Obviously China didn't reciprocate that, and many other places didn't either. But the America side of that open door policy (sentiment really) hasn't really gone away, even with the more recent immigration stuff.

I was responding to the claim that "China" or "Chinese as a whole" have higher IQs, that's not really what's happening. Which is why I brought up India, because it's a similar situation, lots and lots of people, plenty of those people are really smart. But it's a measure of a distribution, not really meaningful when talking about the people as whole themselves. Which itself is reductionist.