dinosaurs in the boardroom, not the classroom

[elena]

Enrique, will all due respect, as wojtek says, generalising on "foreign"
(versus WHO) PhD's may get you into a cat fight. Foreign PhD's, especially
from Eastern Europe, totally depend on scholarships from institutions like
soros, full&bright, etc. You may guess how they filter the applicants -
using similar to any immigration control levers, maybe even more refined,
mechanisms which are banally
political. I hope that some commie may get away with it and get the odd
scholarship but that would only be due to the rusty local soros (or
whatever) bureaucracy, sloppiness of some official who didn't care to check
the applicant's credentials or suchlike. To say nothing of the very
procedure of getting a job at the uni (here), which acts like Maxwell's
demon in most cases. But this has always been like this here (even before
democracy) - I suspect it was my essay on sci-fi communism (the exam was a
must in those days many years ago) that got me the Moscow scholarship to
study medicine,
not my results in biology and chemistry exams.
I just want to say that it is not fair to blame "foreign PhD's) for the
rules of the game because those who pay
set the rules; even if they are exposed to feel ashamed, as chang suggests,
they won't change it; can you?
Sidebar on generalistic assumptions: to me you are as American as Clinton
and any green-card-lottery winner (which is not to say i don't allow for
some differences). Guess you further identify yourself as Hsipanic,
upper-middle-working-whatever class; downtown-suburbun-whatever resident,
etc, etc semantic traits that don't matter if one is set to think in
conveniently constructed binary oppositions. That got me into a bloddy
blizzard a couple of days ago on another list; that also gets me constantly
into scandals at our local soc club off-line where discrimination against
Roma, suspicion against Turks is tacitly tolerated, if not encouraged. With
attitudes like
this socialism (here, BG) is just a game, not a cause. No wonder we get
little support at elections and a huge, silent, vote-boycotting crowd.


>And the ruling class seem hell-bent on insuring that there will never be
>enough gainful economic opportunities for educated people in the Third
>World and formerly socialist countries!  Push and pull -- it all makes
>sense!  The only possible system failure in this regard seems occasional
>imports of foreign Marxists (quite a few of whom hail from India).
>
Fully yoshie here...
Found a nice quote in Le Monde Dpl's article on Kosovo war:
"As the world goes, right is only in question between equals in power, while
the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"
Thucydides, The Peloponesian War, little after the dinosaurs

-----Original Mess from: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez
Subject: Re: dinosaurs in the boardroom, not the classroom


>No problem. Just import more foreign PhDs.
>
>Enrique
>