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Look at any academic institution in the US in the life sciences. If you would take away the Europeans and Asians, what would be left?

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The field would become more attractive to Americans and they would fill the empty places.

How would that make the field more attractive? If the aforementioned Europeans and Asians left, and Americans moved in afterwards, aren't you essentially implying Americans cannot keep up with them?

Americans can't keep up with outsourced foreign factory workers, either. Americans are unwilling to get paid $5/day.

Except we're not talking about outsourced work, and not about unqualified work either. Great job misrepresenting and misunderstanding what the issue is about.

The only reason prices are so low is because it's all outsourced. If you want Americans to do the work of the SEA and China, then you're going to pay a lot more for your shit. Those low prices are the only thing that a lot of people rely on their livelihood for.

No, I'm implying that a lot of capable Americans prefer not to work in fields flooded with foreigners. The status attached to working in the field would improve and attract more native candidates.

You do realize you're implying that Americans are xenophobic?

Held to the proper degree xenophobia is a normal, healthy instinct in all cultures.

I don't see how not joining a field just because it consists of certain amount of foreigners is a healthy, normal instinct.

It is because of secondary effects -- larger supply of foreign workers drives down the wages, now and in the future.

Except the whole "software eating the world" thing that might be the exception that proves the rule.

"Held to the proper degree xenophobia is a normal, healthy instinct in all cultures"

That may be, but I'm not sure you know what the words "normal" "healthy" or "proper" mean.

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