Python is an Equal Opportunity Programming Language

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 8 May 2016 04:40 am, Random832 wrote:

> On Sat, May 7, 2016, at 11:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> > Indian and Chinese H1B holders are getting screwed, which is of course
>> > the whole objective of the country limits.
>> 
>> The *whole* objective? You don't think that *part* of the objective may
>> be
>> to ensure that citizens of countries other than India and China can get
>> green cards too?
> 
> If not for the quotas, a citizen of some other country would have an
> equal chance to get a green card as a citizen of India or China. 

If you have a big hat with 5,000,000 tickets marked "Indian", and 500
tickets marked "Finish", and you stick your hand in the hat and rummage
around and pick a random ticket, do you really think that you have an equal
chance of selecting an Indian ticket and a Finish ticket?


> This is 
> a much simpler question than Python convention attendees, since there
> are *in fact* more Indian or Chinese people in actual existence than
> citizens of any given other country, which can't be blamed on any form
> of discrimination.
> 
>> Perhaps the country limits are also in place, at least in part, to manage
>> the rate at which new immigrants arrive in the country?
> 
> That's immaterial, we're not talking about a limit on the total number
> of visas.

How is it immaterial? Regardless of the limit on the total number of visas,
per country limits put an upper limit how quickly new immigrants from any
one specific country can arrive.



-- 
Steven