Immigration and Inventing Inferiority

Writing, alphabet, numerical system, paper, agriculture, animal domestication, wheel, first machines like water and windmills, compass, metallurgy, etc.-- the backbone of civilization comes from the same places we are bombing into oblivion. For that matter we are hardly more generous with those cradles of civilization to the south (Indus River) and east (Yangtze) or even with the Mesoamerican and South American inheritors who yielded us so much of the agricultural legacy that our nation thrived off of such as tobacco, potato, cotton and corn. There is no rule that says we must show any special respect or gratitude to those who contribute to civilization, but perhaps we should abstain from the bombing without good reason.

Yet at we are also bombing ourselves, metaphorically, right here in America with so-called skilled immigration and the belief of American inferiority. We believe that the peoples of the West are no longer capable of contributing to scientific and technological innovations or even upkeep of what we have developed.

Obviously in modern times, the West, and the U.S. in particular has become the birthplace of technology and invention. Discoveries and inventions like AC/DC, electric lighting, electric heating, the turbine, the television, the telephone, the radio, the gas combustible engine, airplane, the internet, the silicon chip, the transistor, computers, refrigeration, storage of plasma, multiple vaccines, penicillin, the satellite, and a few other inventions have occurred in the West, particularly right here in America. We in the West have absolutely no reason to get down on our abilities.

Yet suddenly Americans believe they need Asian immigration to keep up technological excellence.  Let's take look at a list of inventions taken from Time Magazine's last Greatest Inventions time line (it is worth working your way through though it is important to remember that multiple, unnamed and unsung people often contributed who are not listed):

1965

• BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.Astroturf invented.
• Soft contact lenses invented by the Czech chemist Otto Wichterle and his assistant Drahoslav Lím.
• Otis Boykin introduces a resistor that becomes instrumental in the pacemaker and guided missiles.
• The compact disk invented by James Russell.
• Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek.

1966

• Larry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the seed from which the modern Internet grew, in 1966.
• Mass Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented by team at German company Bosch. American inventor and businessman Victor Bendix invented the first electronic fuel injector in 1957 for use in limited specialty cars.  The first use of direct gasoline injection was on the Hesselman engine invented by Swedish engineer Jonas Hesselman in 1925.

1967

•  An international team led by South African surgeon.Christiaan Bernaard performs the first heart transplant.
• The first handheld calculator invented by a development team which included Jerry D. Merryman for Texas Instruments.

1968

• The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
• The first computer with integrated circuits  (Third Generation) developed by Robert S. Barton of Burroughs Corporation. The integrated circuit itself was conceived by a radar scientist working for the Royal Radar Establishment of the British Ministry of Defence, Geoffrey W.A. Dummer (1909-2002), who published it at the Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington, D.C. on May 7, 1952. Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958 and successfully demonstrated the first working integrated circuit on September 12, 1958.
• Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).

1969

• The stent was invented by Charles Theodore Dotter.
• The arpanet (first internet) invented by JCR Licklider, Bob Taylor and Ivan Sutherland.
• The artificial heart invented. William J. Kolff invented the first artificial heart and the first artificial kidney-dialysis machine.
• The ATM invented by James Goodfellow.
• The bar-code scanner is invented by David Collins, George J. Laurer among others.

1970

• The daisy-wheel printer invented by Andrew Gabor and others.
• The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart and others.

1971

• The dot-matrix printer invented by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts.
• The food processor invented.
• The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
• The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.

1972

• The word processor invented.
• Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the modern Internet.
• Pong first video game invented by Nolan Bushnell.

1973

• Gene splicing invented Herbert Boyer and others.
• The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
• Bic invents the disposable lighter.

1975

• The laser printer invented by Gary Starkweather.

1976

• The ink-jet printer invented by IBM.
• Sony popularizes VCR or videocassette invented Ray Dolby working for the Ampex Corporation in 1956.

1977

• Magnetic resonance imaging invented by Raymond V. Damadian.

1978

• Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston invented the VisiCalc spreadsheet.
• The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.

1979

• Cell phones invented by Dr. Martin Cooper.
• Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray.
• Walkman invented by Andreas Pavel.

1981

• MS-DOS invented by Tim Paterson and others.
• The first PC invented over the years by Ed Roberts, Jack Frassanito and others.
• The scanning tunneling microscope invented by Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer.
• Adam Osborne invented the laptop computer.

1982

• Genentech introduced use of recombinant human growth hormone for human therapy in 1981. ( 1976 Genentech, the first genetic engineering company was founded by Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson and a year later and the company produced a human protein (somatostatin) in E.coli. Genentech announced the production of genetically engineered human insulin in 1978.)

1983

• Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term "virtual reality".

1984

• The CD-ROM invented by Phillips and Sony led consortium to create a uniform disc-type media standard.
• The Apple Macintosh invented.

1985

• Windows program invented by Microsoft Bill Gates and others. A partly successful suit stated part of the technology was taken from rival Apple.

1986

• A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Muller.
• Synthetic skin invented by G. Gregory Gallico, III.

1987

• Disposable contact lenses invented by team at Johnson and Johnson. 
• From 1987 to 2001 John Henry Thompson writes "Lingo" the integrative programming language and as chief scientist at Macromedia where he developed a number of products, including: The VideoWorks Accelerator, VideoWorks II, MediaMaker and Macromedia Director, laying the groundwork for Flash which allows for video sharing sites like youtube.

1988

• Digital cellular phones invented by Nordic Mobile Telephone.
• The RU-486 (abortion pill) invented by Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu (originally in 1980, finished trials in 1988.)
• Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler.
• Prozac invented at the Eli Lilly Company by inventor Ray Fuller.
• The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart.
• Ralph Alessio and Fredrik Olsen received a patent for the Indiglo nightlight. The bluish green light is used to illuminate the entire face of a watch.

1989

• High-definition television invented by members of the Grand alliance included General Instrument, Zenith, Sarnoff Labs (RCA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and AT&T Labs and Philips. The Grand Alliance was formed in May of 1993 under the auspices of the FCC.
• Philip Emeagwali creates the fastest computer by altering processor architecture. It is the first computer to perform calculations at over 3 billion per second.

1990

• The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) and the first internet browser, created by Tim Berners-Lee.

1991

• Developer of first multimedia, (video) file system QuickTime, Bruce Leak, runs public demonstration at the May 1991 Worldwide Developers Conference, where he played Apple's famous 1984 TV commercial on a Mac, at the time an astounding technological breakthrough.  In time multimedia digital file posting (including advertisements), sharing and hosting such as Napster and Youtube would proliferate.
• The digital answering machine invented by Trey Weaver.

1992

• The smart pill invented by Jerome Schentag and David D'Andrea.

1993

• The pentium processor invented.  
• First graphical web browser to become truly popular and capture the imagination of the public was NCSA Mosaic. Developed by Marc Andreessen, Jamie Zawinski and others who later went on to create the Netscape browser.

1994

• Ward Cunningham invents "Wiki".
• John Warnock invents the PDF, to effectively capture documents from any application, send electronic versions of these documents anywhere, and view and print these documents on any machines, using text searching capabilities.

1995

• The Java computer language invented by James Gosling.
• DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented by a Sony/Phillips consortium.

1996

• Anders Hejlsberg develops the C# programming language.

1997

• The gas-powered fuel cell invented by Stanley Allen Meyer.

1997

• Shawn Fanning and Sean Parke start Napster peer to peer file sharing website.

Modern Inventions of 2001

• AbioCor artificial heart invented by Abiomed - the Abiocor represents groundbreaking medical miniaturization technology. Nuvaring birth control invented by Organon.
• Fuel cell bike invented by Aprilia.
• On October 23, 2001 Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player the iPod, created under project codename Dulcimer.

Modern Inventions of 2002

• Braille Glove invented by Ryan Patterson.
• Phone tooth invented by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau.
• Birth control patch invented by Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical.
• Foveon Camera Chip invented by Richard Merrill.
• Date Rape Drug Spotter invented by Francisco Guerra.
• Solar Tower invented by Jorg Schlaich.
• Virtual keyboard invented by Canesta and VKB.
• ICOPOD invented by Sanford Ponder.

Modern Inventions of 2003

• Optical Camouflage System invented by Susumu Tachi, Masahik
• Infrared Fever Screening System used in public buildings to scan for people with a high temperature from a fever or sars invented by Singapore Technologies Electronics and the Singapore Defense Science and Technology Agency
• MySpace service, one of the earliest social netorking services was founded in July 2003 by Tom Anderson (an alumnus of both UC Berkeley and UCLA), the current president, Chris DeWolfe (a graduate of USC's Marshall School of Business), the current CEO, and a small team of programmers.

Modern Inventions of 2004

• Translucent Concrete developed by Hungarian architect Aron Losonczi and called LitraCon and is based on a matrix of parallel optical glass fibers embedded into the concrete that can transmit light and color from the outside. However, this is not the only translucent concrete out there. Inventor Bill Price has been developing another variety.
• Intel Express Chipsets - Grantsdale and Alderwood are the code names of Intel's newest chips that will provide superior and inexpensive built-in sound and video capacities for the PC including the ability to do high definition video editing without additional computer cards.
• SonoPrep invented by bioengineer Robert Langer, is a device that will deliver medication by sound waves rather than injection. According to the Sontra Medical Corporation, SonoPrep's manufacturer: The small, battery-powered device applies low-frequency ultrasonic energy to the skin for 15 seconds. The ultrasound temporarily rearranges lipids in the skin, opening channels that let fluids be delivered or extracted. After about 24 hours, the skin returns to normal.

Other Modern Inventions

• In 1958 Ake Senning and Rune Elmquist of Sweden invent the first implantable pacemaker.
• Ray Tomlinson invented email in 1971.  
• 1977 Jerome H. Lemelson invented the camcorder. Lemelson also invented the mechanism that was used in the Walkman.
• In 1981 Kane Kramer invented the digital audio player.
• Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived USENET in 1979.  It is the precursor to all bulletin board, forum and group email. It is also claimed the first public dial-up Bulletin Board System was developed by Ward Christensen in 1978.
• The first ever search engine known to the world was called 'Archie', and was created by McGill students Peter Deutsch, Bill Heelen and Alan Emtage (from Barbados) in 1992. Archie was developed and heavily worked on during the early 1990's, and is the basic skeleton for what we now know as Google.
• In the 1970s, manufacturers of professional video broadcast equipment, such as Bosch (through their Fernseh division), RCA, and Ampex developed prototype digital video recorders and filing.
• In 1997 Berkeley student Chase Norlin develops first uploadable video file sharing website "www.shareyourworld.com", running from 1998 to 2002.  His work was the precursor for Youtube founders and then Paypal staff Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim borrowing the format and secured US$11.5 million investment by then Paypal and venture capitalists Don Valentine and Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital).  
• 2004, Cuban Carlos J. Finlay Institute invents vaccine for meningitis, and pneumonia. Cuban Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine  invents vaccine for cholera. 1982 Cuban doctors invent humanised monoclonal antibodies to treat head and neck cancers. 

Considering that China and India account for almost half of humanity it is surprising how little in recent times they have added to our technological betterment. 

No one can suggest that in China and India that there is a discriminatory system that prevents these nations from contributing to the world's technological advancement. Quite to the contrary.


During since the Cold War commenced to today, the U.S., Europe and the former Soviet Union were falling over themselves to offer technical advisement, materiel, and above all university education and research positions for the best and brightest of China and India.  This was once done to sway these nations to a political side.  Today it is done to build relationships with these nations that have promise by sheer size to be insatiable markets.  

Today not only are we in the West educating India and China's best students, (and absorbing their immigrants) but we have meekly stood by as the greatest free transfer of proprietary technology and intellectual property the world has ever seen occurs, all from West to East. 


Asia and its immigrants remain as innovatively sterile as the Ganges and Yangtze are earthy.

Nevertheless it seems the richest, most edumacated, most uppity whites who most strongly subscribe to Myth of the Asian Superiority (often in the form of the "Model Minority"). A recent, interesting study conducted by Northwestern U decided see if the Myth was that roundly held by performing a study.  Interestingly, they used many of the same attitudinal studies that “Asian Critical Scholars” have cited in the past to tease out some important findings. Their first step was to identify the basket of “non-Hispanic whites” Asiaphiles who would most thoroughly subscribe to 

Model Minority tenets. The results -

20% of non-Hispanic whites rated Asian Americans as more intelligent than whites; and 34% of non-Hispanic whites rated Asian Americans as harder working… 70% ranked Asian Americans as wealthier than other minority groups… 42% as harder working and 33% as more intelligent.

Focusing on these “non-Hispanic whites,” the study authors found that -

… education (highest degree attained), performance on a vocabulary test, individual income, and occupational prestige all correlated positively and strongly with believing that Asian Americans work harder than whites and work harder than other minorities. Such respondants were also more likely to live in the 12 largest metropolitan areas…

…stereotyping the positive work habits and financial success of Asian Americans rises with education and socioeconomic status…

So it’s the richest, most edumacated, most uppity whites who most strongly subscribe to Myth of the Model Minority. The second issue was that when these folks were queried about specific policy issues, the ill effects of the Asian superiority/Model Minority myth was for them difficult, if not impossible to find. Like all myths, they eventually become reality if enough people believe. Who has not seen the behavioral preference and deference, and the positioning and allocation of opportunity and support in society based on the Myth of Asian superiority?  Even school children are aware of it.

The questions remain, "Who are selling these myths and why?"

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Why wasn’t there anyone around 12 years ago to warn us about all this? There was.

August 18th, 1998
Whose Country is It Anyway?
by Patrick J. Buchanan ?” August 18, 1998

In the national argument over the rules and regulations that should govern the U.S. economy, there was always one agreed-upon principle: We must decide based on what is best for Americans.

Economic patriotism, however, is dying in America. If you do not believe it, consider the impending sellout of America’s high-tech workers ?” to appease the computer titans of Silicon Valley.

A decade ago, Silicon Valley demanded and got what is known as the H-1B program, granting U.S. residency to 65,000 high-skilled foreign workers every year to fill jobs in the industry. Two-thirds of a million “computer braceros,” mostly Chinese and South Asians, have snapped up these jobs that would otherwise have gone to U.S. citizens.

So addicted has Silicon Valley become to its braceros that this year it is demanding that Congress raise the annual quota to 115,000. Why not hire Americans for these jobs where the average pay is $50,000? Not enough Americans can do them! comes the reply. Well, why not hire from the pool of 1 million legal immigrants who enter the United States yearly? They don’t have the skills either! is the retort.

Now, when one considers that the defense industry has laid off tens of thousands and the United States is the most technologically advanced nation on Earth, the wail of Silicon Valley seems absurd. Out of 265 million Americans, they can’t find 50,000 qualified Americans?

The truth is that Silicon Valley, if it has to, will find and train Americans for those jobs. It simply prefers foreign workers. Why? Because they’re younger, their expectations are lower, they can be paid less and are content with less, they are totally dependent on the company to keep them in the country, and they are less trouble than independent-minded American workers.

So widespread is the practice of hiring foreign workers in the computer industry that American applicants are sometimes asked if they would feel comfortable working in an “Asian environment.” On a few occasions, American programmers have been asked to help train the foreign workers brought in to replace them.

Now, if one’s highest loyalty is to the bottom line on a balance sheet, what Silicon Valley is doing in de-Americanizing its labor force makes sense. And there are two ways to get rid of American workers. One is to export their jobs and factories overseas and hire foreign labor there. The other is to keep the factory here but bring in the foreign workers to replace Americans in their own country.

U.S. corporations, which now proudly call themselves “global companies,” are pursuing both strategies. What is astonishing is to see a Republican Congress collaborate with these globalists and help facilitate the de-Americanization of their labor force.

Before Congress adjourns in October, it will vote on whether to raise the annual quota of H-1B foreign workers to 115,000. The Senate has approved. But the White House, to President Clinton’s credit, has said that it will not sign an expansion of the H-1B program unless the bill contains provisions whereby companies “attest” that they have not fired an American to hire a foreign worker and the firms agree to set up a program to train Americans for future openings.

Well, this could really set the cat down among the pigeons of Silicon Valley.

Before hiring foreign workers, these firms would have to attest that they have been telling the truth, i.e, that there are just not enough qualified Americans around.

But that is going to be difficult to do, since the industry has been laying off Americans, there are an estimated 50 applications for every job opening in Silicon Valley, and computer courses in U.S. colleges are jammed with young people. The truth is the U.S. free market will solve any labor shortage Silicon Valley has, if only we will let it work for Americans. Before bringing in foreign labor to take jobs that could provide a wonderful future for hundreds of thousands of our young people, why not let the market work?

Again, the GOP is facing a stark choice: Will it stand with the rich of Silicon Valley, who provide much of the soft money at election time? Or will it side with the American workers whose birthright is being taken from them and given to folks from foreign lands?

Who is the American economy for, if not the American people? And which comes first, our countrymen or the Global Economy? The H-1B program should be phased out, which would force Silicon Valley to do what it ought to have been doing for a decade: hiring, training and promoting Americans.

After all, whose country is it anyway?

Note: Congress approved this and subsequent expansions to the H-1B program as well as as vastly inflated international student visas and international cooperation scholarships in the field of technology, math and science.