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azn_cyniq said:

I absolutely agree with most of your points, but I still believe that true power stems from the creation of value. For instance, Mark Zuckerberg alone has created more wealth and influence for the Jewish-American community than 100 Indian CEOs.

Chinese-Americans founded or co-founded many household names like YouTube, Nvidia, Twitch, Yahoo, Snapchat (Filipino-Chinese), and Zoom but none of these companies are helping Chinese-Americans assert influence on the affairs of the United States. Chinese-Americans are academically gifted, but seem to lack business acumen. For instance, YouTube and Twitch were sold to other companies in their infancy and Yahoo refused to purchase Google. In my opinion, Chinese-Americans need to understand the importance of political influence. Many Chinese-Americans, due to our upbringing, aspire to be scientists and engineers because those professions enable us to generate value. However, for the sake of our community, more of us should aspire to be executives and politicians.

Indian-Americans are great at securing political influence, but I still believe that Chinese-Americans should follow the Jewish-American model by generating influence through the creation of value. YouTube, Twitch, and Yahoo could have led to Chinese-owned business empires, but unfortunately they didn't. Nonetheless, I hope that the next big company founded by a Chinese-American does lead to more influence for our community. I attend an Ivy League school and one of my Chinese-American classmates, who is a close friend of mine, recently founded a startup that is already worth millions. I don't want to say too much about this matter due to the presence of lurkers on this forum, but I'll discuss these thoughts with him. Who knows, maybe 10 years down the line his company will become the source of the influence so many of us are talking about on this forum.

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Abominable said:

Indians who work in the west aren't a plot by the Indian government to infiltrate the west, they are leaving because of a lack of opportunities in India. Thinking that is the case is not far off the American claim that the CCP is infiltrating America.

Comparing either Indians or Chinese to Jewish people is different for a number of reasons. First, Jewish Americans look "American" and can infiltrate corporations, media, banks and politics without it being obvious. Imagine if there were as many Chinese (or even Asian looking people) in as many cabinet positions as American Jews are today, it's impossible.

The other reason is there is no organisation coordinating and lobbying prominent Indians to advance the interests of India. If anything ethnic Indians in American politics seem to be critical of India. Remember that Indian guy Biden sent to India to tell them to sanction Russia?

With Jews in America (or any European country) there are a number of organisations coordinating them, AIPAC, ADL, ZOA etc. In fact many hold dual citizenship with Israel. It's hard enough to imagine an ethnic Chinese politician getting a cabinet position in America, can you imagine what the reaction would be if it turned out he had a Chinese passport?

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FriedButter said:

Still better than BBC washing cooked rice to reduce the starch before making it into fried rice.

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Abominable said:

Aviation - another industry Germany used to be globally successful in. Even in the PR article you posted you neglected to mention the fact that Lufthansa will be refurbishing BOEING aircraft. 10-20 years ago they would have been Airbus.

For you the whole world is the Middle East, Germany and India with cherry picked PR releases to confirm your biases. What about Africa, South/central America, the rest of Asia?

"The King of Dubai bought a Maybach, German industry is great"
"The Shah of Iran bought a German toothbrush, German healthcare is number one."

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FriedButter said:

Still better than BBC washing cooked rice to reduce the starch before making it into fried rice.

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FairAndUnbiased said:

Ottomans conquered Arabs for 400 years.

If German engineering is so great how come they don't have a space, semiconductor, EV, shipbuilding or software industry? Clearly they're replaceable there. So you're wrong again.

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PiSigma said:

You really need to learn to use Google. Salaries are all pre tax and in order to compare apple to apples you need to look at each country separately. ME is not the world and most people don't give a crap about it.

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Overtime pay is available at many airlines. When an airline needs to ensure a flight happens they will offer anywhere from 100% to 300% (or more) to get pilots to pick up the job.
At this time in 2022, this is an incredibly common occurrence. And with no end in sight for the pilot shortage, this will likely continue for years to come.

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PiSigma said:

Software engineers don't actually get paid that much. If you look at anywhere in north America, petroleum engineers get paid the most.

You haven't backed up your statements with any facts/statistics.

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Britain’s 42 coups since 1945​

The UK has planned or executed over 40 attempts to remove foreign governments in 27 countries since the end of the Second World War, involving the intelligence agencies, covert and overt military interventions and assassinations, Declassified has found.


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‘Let’s not divide into blocs’: EU faces pushback from Indo-Pacific on Ukraine​

• Some ministers in the region back an immediate halt to fighting in Ukraine, countering the EU position that such a move would solidify Russian gains
• Pacific Island Forum leader Filimon Manoni called discussions ‘sobering’

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siegecrossbow said:

Jamie Oliver uses same rice and eggs I use for fried rice. Why is his so shit?

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