Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why So Many Chinese Students Come to America" video.

The smartest people I ever met were native African. There's a lot of education and creativity there, it just needs a better governance environment to take advantage of those skills before those folks develop the opportunity and commitment to emigrate.
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Right, education expenses are exempt from the $50k/year foreign exchange limit, so things like rent for a student's private room in an expensive apartment near campus (which they're really sharing and pocketing the difference) aren't counted in the annual cap.
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@jack L Or those who escaped the Mainland after 1949. The students coming in were the ones who went through the post-89 "patriotic education" reforms, which means regular study of Party philosophy and achievements without all the nasty counterexamples that can no longer be discussed within China or among other Chinese nationals (who could be Party informants). Hence the shock when they finally hear about it, especially when coming from others who grew up Chinese.
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@jimmyhuang8382 Social sciences and humanities are important too, if not only to prevent a descent into becoming a mad scientist, but also helping you consider what motivates people and can get them to care about your work, and ensure what you make isn't going to create a consumer revolt or other disturbing implications down the line. For example, my degree is in sociology, and I tinkered with computers and networks since grade school. I put the two together into cybersecurity because human users themselves are the weakest link in a network, and through my studies in rhetoric and social psychology come up with ways to steer people away from bad habits and towards best practices. I see humanities as a fundamental part of society, because these arts and frivolities are what differentiate us from robots that merely follow commands, have difficulties creating solutions to unexpected situations, and whose satisfaction does not matter. Notice how heavily STEM-minded folks are too often horrible managers, and don't rise very far in leadership positions.
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The problem is the CPC deems American culture as fundamentally threatening, and actively discourages the Chinese people from seeing and absorbing Western media without the Party's commentary on how inferior and imposing the foreigners are. The US by contrast has always been open, or at least never closed off; Even before the lifting of racial immigration quotas there have been active and vibrant Chinatowns since before the Civil War. Nowadays it's a near everyday instance to interact with Chinese people, but usually it's those who read traditional script and speak Cantonese/Minnan/Taiwanese Mandarin -- with modern Mainlanders takes a lot more effort to get to the individual underneath and expand more than what we can simply see by ourselves on CGTN or People's Daily.
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