Good morning, Keith, Anecdotally, this jibes with my own observations. During the course of a day's interaction with professionals in the US (say, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Durham, North Carolina) I is not uncommon to run into 15-20 percent foreign-born, based on accent. The interesting thing is that it is not evident whether they have become American citizens or not - and the even more interesting thing is that no one cares about this. Perhaps that is why America is the destination of choice for so many of what we could call the world's well-educated 'mobility.'
Cheers, Lawry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 3:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Educational subsidy to US For those who are interested in the extent to which the developed countries are being subsidised by the immigration of qualified people from Third World the following link has plenty of data: <http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/1999/06/carringt.htm> The US receives somewhat more than half of the total brain drain. Keith Hudson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________
