Surprised that Fulbright scholarships are still a thing, given DOGE. Cultural exchange programs seems like something the current US administration would get a severe rash from.
Beautiful blogpost and I wholly agree with the message of not scrapping everything going on today because you can’t see immediate growth from it.
It’s like if the USA was a house, Donald Trump and his goons are cancelling all the utilities without realising (1) that in a month the water will be shut off and the entire house will start smelling like shit.
1. or probably without caring, it’s easy to misattribute malice for stupidity when the actions being taken are THIS malicious but that’s what’s going on.
I don’t necessarily think Donald Trump is this stupid but I think he is just very very malicious. Though at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter whether he is stupid or malicious or both, the consequences of what he is doing won’t change depending on intentions.
Met my current best friend 15 years ago at Georgia Tech. He was a Fulbright scholar from Turkey studying architecture. Really glad this program existed!
My uncle went from a village in the middle of nowhere to a Stanford PhD in Physics thanks to this program. Went on to become a pretty important physicist. This is real and valuable contribution, not just short-sightedly for US, but for all of us. A shame if it is discontinued.
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 25.2 ms ] threadIt’s like if the USA was a house, Donald Trump and his goons are cancelling all the utilities without realising (1) that in a month the water will be shut off and the entire house will start smelling like shit.
1. or probably without caring, it’s easy to misattribute malice for stupidity when the actions being taken are THIS malicious but that’s what’s going on. I don’t necessarily think Donald Trump is this stupid but I think he is just very very malicious. Though at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter whether he is stupid or malicious or both, the consequences of what he is doing won’t change depending on intentions.