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Originally Posted by RST500
A lot of articles from Neoliberal sources claim that Asian immigrants are going to Canada for tech jobs instead of the US due to a "xenophobic climate" but I am sort of skeptical of that.
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Perhaps some do, but that sounds more like Canadian melting pot mythmaking. Asians are turning down Silicon Valley jobs because they're scared of bigots in San Jose (a place where Asians are a plurality, and probably soon to be majority?)
I doubt a typical U.S. Asian is exposed to more xenophobia than their Canadian equivalents. And I doubt most immigrants are doing rigorous analyses of immigration options; they're headed to family or jobs and probably couldn't say much about the differences between Topeka and Toronto, Hartford or Hamilton.
They might know the U.S. has more guns, blacks, rich folks, loud folks, warm weather, and that's about it.