Welcome to United States of America
Why should Chinese Immigrants come to America?
By: Kaniya Roberson & Tafari Hogarth
Why are they leaving from their homeland?
"Guo said that to Americans, the Chinese economy might seem strong because China’s leaders rarely hesitate to prop it up with short-term measures — whether bailing out state-owned companies or building too many bridges. He offered an analogy to describe the two countries: Imagine two children on a playground. One has parents who are constantly hovering, making sure she doesn’t fall and scrape herself. By contrast, the other child’s parents give her more distance, letting her fend for herself. She stumbles and cries more often, but when she becomes an adult, she’s more resilient. In Guo’s view, the helicopter parents are the Chinese government, while the other parents represent Washington. In the end, he said, the U.S. economy will be stronger... But Guo’s perspective reflects how many Chinese feel: that despite slower U.S. growth right now, the fundamentals of the nation’s economic and political system are far stronger than China’s."
"For Americans long inured to talk of a crisis in public education, this attraction to America’s schools may come as a bit of a surprise. For years, Americans have become accustomed to lagging behind the rest of the world in international tests of science, reading and math. In a recent study by Pearson and the Economist Intelligence Unit, the United States ranked 17th in test scores, literacy, and graduation rates, well behind Asian students in Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea."
China's students are becoming a big factor in US colleges — according to one figure, 157,588 Chinese nationals studied in U.S. colleges in 2011, a 23% increase from the year before, and parents are apparently willing to spend big — one couple from Hong Kong are suing a former Harvard professor who they paid $2 million to get him into the school (he apparently failed). Perhaps the most incredible figure is that some 90% of China's mega-rich want their children to study in the US, according to one recent study.