In one part it said how the first generation had no technical forefathers to rely on, some people came from rural farming backgrounds. It's pretty amazing how they were able figure out how things work with no technical know how. They were all white Americans.
Maybe the media did not emphasize on or remember those who did...I can think of a few chinese american physicists, like the founder of Jet Propulsion Labs which led to founding of NASA. He was then accused of being a spy and hes virtually unknown
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Drealm [via Mikraite] <[hidden email]> wrote:
In one part it said how the first generation had no technical forefathers to rely on, some people came from rural farming backgrounds. It's pretty amazing how they were able figure out how things work with no technical no how. They were all white Americans.
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the idea is that their education is not American. Its that America has the money and the resources to fund their research. Its like the Russian Scientists that defects to USA during the Cold War
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 8:32 PM, fschmidt [via Mikraite] <[hidden email]> wrote:
Many foreigners contributed to American technology, but this did this within the context of (old) American culture. They were not H-1Bs, they were immigrants.
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