Vivek Ramaswamy

@VivekGRamaswamy

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1872312139945234507

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48487780)

it's been explained to you and others over and over

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48487830)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48487842)

XO used to be against this kind of striver mentality wrt kids

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48487885)

If we fought for years to get Trump back in office just so he'll let in thousands of Indians then we would have been better off with him in jail.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48487898)

Strange argument that America is mediocre bc our TV celebrates mediocrity, as if the people who put a man on the moon didn't grow up watching American and German film and TV shows that similarly highlighted mediocre people like Jackie Gleason or the Blue Angel

It's almost like GORGEOUS Vivik doesn't know about America

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48488049)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48488225)

birdshits though prefer their kid being a meth head so this will be hard for them to accept

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48488415)

https://x.com/NikkiHaley/status/1872344248915554712

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48488512)

and saying there's nothing wrong with american workers is laughably retarded and bullshit, what percent of "american workers" wld nimrata haley hire to build a giant dildo machine in her bedroom? is she gonna hire some niggas? some muzzies? some fat retarded meth'd out birdshits? we all know the anwer, saars

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48488575)

and (2) u retards use to bitch how NYC etc wld give migrants free hotels, ATM cards, food etc. wtf u think happens when u give ppl free shit? oh they come to take it. wow, what a concept! furking retards

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48488580)

ppl can say whatever they want depending on what fits their need their opinion.

indeed elan tusk would say need more engineers until hes paying a pittance for them

$ is insatiable demand

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48490797)

2) Indians are not better than Americans at coding or STEM. They have 5x our population and it's a simple supply and demand game.

Just like Indians are not better at taking customer service calls than whites but they dominate the CSR industry.

3) What's his personal grievance with Boy Meets World? That show was lame as fuck but not renowned for promoting idiocy.

Further, every single Indian guy would want to be Cory because he dates a white chick.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654522&forum_id=2#48489763)