真的是很中肯的 oberservation. I've lived in USA since 1998 and worked in semi recruiting ( mainly IC design). I agree with your comments based on what I've seen in the industry interacting with engineers from different cultural backgrounds.
AZ is not a traditionally immigrant friendly state, there isn't much Chinese here. Just for this person he is new here, and he has never lived in one of the more immigrant heave states, so he doesn't know this.
it is normal to see[2分之1強].many foreigners who speak mandarin live in Taiwan. their思維模式 even change to mandarin. If you don't use the language for a period of time, then you forget it. It is the reason why many can't speak foreign language fluently even they learn it for many years, because they don't use the foreign language in life.
From my personal experience with my son as he growing up, I hope there is a 40/60 percent mix between Taiwan and U.S. education style. Thanks for sharing.
美國基礎教育的壞處是太輕松,在完全沒有壓力的情況下小孩子會很難養成讀書習慣和毅力,只有百分之四十上大學,他們在學校就算成績好也只是跟那些不會上大學的人比,也許會在沒有真正的學到東西還是成績好,但也只是旁邊的人太差而已,讀中學的時候就有全班只有兩個人交作業的情況。尤其是在left no one behind 的制度下,就算學生得F,還是會被保送入下一學年。很多都是上了大學才發現自己底子很薄弱,意志力又差,加上經濟壓力很多人struggle讀不下去, 這是美國人的現狀,為什麼美國需要亞洲人來做工程師,自己國家培養不出自己的人才呢?這其中也代表他們教育制度的問題。 涼先生提到的書本上以外的教育的確是有,但還是在於各個家庭,學校可能沒有辦法各方面都顧的到,開明的父母還是需要找機會幫助開導他們,我這麼說也不是建議回去當虎爸虎媽,但美國台灣教育各有利弊,還是各取其優點吧。
Commonly, almost all Taiwanese who wish to migrate to the US would very much want their children & themselves to be treated as local folk in the US. English as a language is not a difficult language to pick up for many people but it could be the other way round. the American blacks too wanted the whites to accept them as one family to cut down hate crimes. why not the Taiwanese take the initiative to do like what Michael Jackson did, Despite Michael Jackson’s contribution to pop culture and music history, there always has been a thorough success when it came to his skin color and his facial outlook. Taiwanese are fond of cosmetic surgery done in Korea where he or she can easily convert into any nationality they want. or most directly, married to the local white.