Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production

I am curious what is source of you information about Polish antisemitism.

[1] https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2020/antisemitism-overv...

An American in Germany would probably knee-jerk to 'racism' for a few reasons, and although there are different kinds of unfairness, I'm not sure if that's quite the right word.

America is an open place, Germany, not so much. America has tons of really high-level aptitude migrants, Germany doesn't quite have that.

With respect to 'glass ceilings' - it's more complicated.

As a resident of Germany for some time, as an outsider ... I would have expected to be promoted well enough if I was materially 'that much better', but frankly, not otherwise.

I actually accepted the fact that 'this is a German company, it's going to be run by Germans'.

I was in France I felt the same way.

I don't believe in the notion that a random person from country XYZ has the 'right' to be an executive for example at a local company.

Definitely treated with respect and not face racism, definitely promoted rank and file based mostly on performance, definitely the same material, legal rights - but beyond that ... I always felt 'it was their country, not really mine'.

Also, there are quite a number of these countries run by foreign nationals anyhow, it's just not quite as common as in the US.

I just hate this smug american BS. "We love XYZ", but will exploit it, and change rules every 4 years.

Europe country cultures are massively more different and diverse than US states.

There's only been free pan-EU movement since the Lisbon Treaty in December 2009. 11 years is not enough time to achieve the homogeneity that US citizens have from being single(dual at most) language, single currency & no borders for hundreds of years. Not to mention the similar pan US TV they all shared for decades.

Germany did colonize Africa and committed its fair share of attrocities in Namibia, but the colonies were taken away after WWII - way before the African independence movement took hold (which was immediately followed by an uptick of citizens in those former colonies migrating to colonial powers)

Germans playing the moral superiority card is humorous to me.

Yes, that was a weird point to make in the article because it's not as if there are many Black people in Germany. But you have to admit that having just two non-white people out of 179 (1.1%) on corporate boards is pretty odd. Germany is white, but not 98.9% white. Turks make up over 5% of the population.

I as an ethnic German can echo the GP's point. Non-management can be quite diverse, but management is very much old, white, ethnic Germans as far as the eye can see.

There are still a lot of conscious/unconscious ethnic biases in Germany, especially among the older population.

Yes, you are supposed to think that now for some reason.

This is true, unfortunately the supremacy of American culture over the last century means that all of these concepts that do not fit very well into other contexts have been exported, I often run into situations in Denmark that would be horrifyingly racist in the U.S (not to say that Denmark doesn't have it's own racist traditions, but the grafting on of the American viewpoint does not exactly fit).

Of course when the concept is exported it in some way becomes the thing over time, and then people try to import the solutions to the problem.

Sometimes people use it to describe racism between people, but it's actually supposed to mean the structural racism which exists in a societal system. It doesn't mean that someone designed it that way, but it could have been or it could be an accidental thing.

Discounting a concept because it's used improperly by some of the "other side" is common today but not helpful.

What was your point in mentioning that to OP? It seems like a bit of an aphorism that doesn't add much to the conversation except to dull GP's point.

Anecdotally, as an American, I meet many more Americans that are critical of America compared to Americans that regard America as the greatest country in the world.

But, hey, I’m just an ignorant American whose only lived here my whole life and was actually educated in the US so it’s not like I have any insight into what Americans learn/don’t learn and common attitudes of normal Americans.

There's significantly more money in the USA than in a lot of other countries.

Even accounting for the ridiculously high taxes and the work-80hrs culture, the high salaries can be worth it for some people.

Compared with which countries?

At-will employment has pros and cons. It’s not like citizens have permanent employment contracts and immigrants have at-will arrangements. Employers are more willing to hire if firing someone who doesn’t work out isn’t ruinous for the employer. It’s true that someone who emigrates from a country where they have a permanent employment arrangement is giving something up to come to the US. Presumably, they think it’s worth it.

And no other country than the US has 0 paid vacation days and 0 paid public holydays!

The other day I was checking number of paid vacations per country, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b..., the US is the only country ns the world with 0 total paid leave.

Those are a lot of shoulds about how other people should live their life.

When you loose employment you’re also allowed to collect unemployment.

My visa class (basically the equivalent of an H1B) also allowed me to work as a contractor in my field.

Finally, getting the visa transferred to another employer just requires you to show up at the immigration office with an employment contract. Your employer doesn’t have to do anything.

There is also an assumption here that you’re a guest who is trying to do the right thing rather than someone who is trying to game the system or steal a job from Germans.

So, the reality is that it’s hugely different from the experience I’ve heard of people having with the American immigration system.

True but I do think America has a “dumbing down” privilege effect on the population. A lot of Americans are racist, angry, and think they’re entitled to their way of life.

They don’t realize they need to do well in school because the high paying jobs they’re competing for everyone in the world is also competing for.

If you’re against immigration you’re limiting your competitive edge and someone else in the world will put you of business (probably in China).

In countries with corrupt and/or incompetent tax authorities, they try to introduce a fixed tax amount / pay in advance scheme for ... reasons ... where they can.

Usually they squeeze freelancers first. Or random liberal occupations. In Romania freelancers and landlords have to prepay taxes based on last years' income, for example. With the exception of some kinds of freelancers that they just gave up on and make them pay a fixed amount per year. Freelancers prepay taxes in Greece too, as far as i know.

For the high tech case...in Spain, an employer can’t provide stock options to employees. The Silicon Valley case where the first few dozen employees become millionaires is not an option in Spain.

For low-level employees, many are employed in the black market and enjoy no privileges. Because of this they get no credit, phone lines and numerous other benefits that extend to being legal. They can’t make the jump.

These problems extend to Dominican Republic where they exist but are even worse.

US / UK is better for hard working, and smart people be they employees or employed people. Anecdotally, I know so many stories of Dominicans who move to USA and begin to work so hard because they finally get compensated and rewarded for previously unacknowledged work. You hear this everywhere. Dominicans become hard workers in USA.