Most  third world professional are moving to the west. Is this brain drain is the conspiracy of the west?
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It's not an active conspiracy, just the result of the job market. No one should be forced to remain in a country where they can't make a living.
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I would feel that they aren't highly educated, because if they were, they would've chosen a different country to move to.
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Maybe it is, but third world countries are primitive and backward compared to 1st and 2nd world countries.  They do things like wash their clothes by hand, have dirt floors in their homes, don't have electricity.
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They want a better life, better jobs. i think its because there is too muich competion in singapore and there are lots of smart people so some of the not as smart people or not well knowledged people decide to immagrate to different places because its easier to find jobs or its not as crowded.
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No of course not.\n\nIf you have even a reasonable education you are in little danger of losing your job to an illegal.  It's just blatant conservative scare tactics at work.\n\nOutsourcing is a totally different issue.  Guess that's what "globalization" means, though ...
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Actually, that is part of what is being considered.  Or perhaps I shouldn't say 'Asians' but an increase in a type of work visa that seems most often filled by Asians.  The number is just dwarfed by the 12 million people number applying to illegal immigrants here, so people aren't paying much attention to it.
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Outsourcing has put some people out of a job and helped entire classes of people develop financial independence for the very first time.  It's a matter of perspective, I guess, but my personal opinion is that people in wealthy countries have plenty of advantages over the third world countries that get outsourced work, and should take responsibility for managing their own careers.
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I think it's difficult for a lot of people to understand or support losing local jobs.  However, your scenario is accurate.  This is now a _global_ economy and people need to shift their thinking a little bit in order to understand the financial impact of decisions to outsource or not.   \n\nThe primary points of your argument are,\n1) There are equally competent engineers in India.  \nThis is true, in fact, of the people that I have worked with, I find that people in Indian firms are _highly_ competent, hard-working, and well-mannered.\n\n2) These competent engineers cost less.\nAbsolutely true.  This will probably change over time as the law of supply-and-demand starts to work, but not for awhile.  Although there is a great deal of demand for low-cose, high-potential engineers, there is also plenty of supply in the global markets.\n\n3) Companies that choose not to utilize global resources will lose.\nVery true.  The cost of product at such a company will be higher in some way.  The product will cost more to make, support, fix, enhance, etc.\n\n4) Downsizing has offsets.\nAlso true.  There will always be a need for direct customer interaction in many areas.  It's only the areas that can be serviced by remote people, like software development, testing, call centers, monitoring, etc that will be heavily impacted by global outsourcing.
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Hundreds of thousands of skilled americans looking for a new line of work.\nIn the 90's, if you said you were going into computers, they said "Hey, that's a hot market!". \nNot anymore. Those jobs are shipped to lower cost countries with english speaking skills.
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Shahrukh,\nHate is a pretty strong word. There are those who hate, but it isn't me or my fellow Yahoo! Answerers.\nI find it interesting you believe there is a scarcity of talent in this or any other country. There is not a scarcity of talent. There is certainly no scarcity of inexpensive workers, those who are willing to take the work for less pay.\nOutsourcing is an attitude that overseas inexpensive labor is the cure for American workers. These decisions are being made at very high corporate levels. The displaced workers are redirecting frustrations to the Indian workers who now have the jobs.\nI would say the satellites would have flown without those Indian workers, would you? In that you are mistaken.
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Canada Immigration now favours people from those countries instead of Europeans....\nI am not judging. This is a fact.\nLots of Eastern European too..\nI don't know why. Cheap labour for some ? Lots of people from China, Korea etc are already extremely educated already but their diplomas are not recognised.\nWhy ? more children ??\nEuropeans do not have as many children..\nIt is puzzling.\nAnd folks : no offense to anybody whatsoever ! I saw how many so educated people from other countries end up flip-flopping burgers !
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The quality of Philippine Education is largely affected by the continuing trend of immigration of local educators and professionals to other "higher-paying" countries. Most educators are tempted to move abroad and acquire a high-paying salary and thereby be able to enhance their family's financial well-being. While there are others who choose to stay out of noble intents, it remains inept to service the demands of a developing nation.
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I don't want to sound a bit too rash but a lot of America's youths don't really deserve to live anywhere near that country. Lots of young men and women in third world countries are willing to give up an arm and leg (and study their butts off) to even have a single window of opportunity open to them. I hope these people realize how lucky they are and in doing so, live up to what's exoected of them.
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well dont let that affect you.i dont.  me, i am south african, highly educated and yet apparently from a 3rd world country. when i look around at uk, london - a 1st world country, i see the young people, clueless, older closed minded folks with blinkers on, and i think, was i eager to come and see this. like you, i didnt fall short of anything back home, in fact my standard of living was 10 times better than london, in terms of space, parking, less tax etc. but i came here to travel, explore , and my skills were needed here... and better yet, a british company came to my country , to recruit me, i didnt even ask to come here, i just sat back and got brought.... so i suggest to those who think foreigners are idiots, just because their accent is different , to think again - cos english is not the universal language in the world.... and british and americans are the people most likely to only know one language, while us foreigners usually know at least 2 languages.
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Money talks and the money is at the top of our corporations.  Those individuals at the top of the corporate ladder make more money based on profitability of the company so of course they are outsourcing.  This began long ago when industry began leaving the northeast and midwest and began moving to the south where the labor was cheap and the tax breaks were huge.  Now India, China and elsewhere are far cheaper.  Don't blame it on the rest of the world, our greed has done this to us.
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i suppose so. and i believe this can be concluded from the world migration levels as made possible by advances in transporation and communication. of course, this is not just the reason, many other things like political (insecurity, wars, etc) or economic (lack of jobs or low in home sending countries, lack of skilled manpower in receiving countries as a result of declining birth rates, etc.) contribute to this. and the bottomline is the mobility of people.in fact, according to an international organization, from 1965 to 2000, some 10% of the world's population do not live in their countries of birth! and this is on the rise! expect more inter racial relationships.
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I think a lot of westerners dont think about 2nd and 3rd world countries. I think westerners have a lot of other things that press them and dont allow for the prioritization of other countries, or even states within their own country.  I think that's why you have only small handfuls of organizations that are dedicated to the cause, and many other causes. Money makes the world go 'round, so when it comes to donating, no matter where in the world, if you cant see directly where the money goes, you tend to keep it, That seems to be the norm. Hopefully that makes sense. Oh, and I am very in touch with people-their lives and cultures and tribulations. This is something that has been a factor in my family's life since before I was born and even more so today. \nI cannot say which country I would go to, because if I could travel, I'd visit them all.