Ian and Ubed Are Engineers at Seedling Laboratories

question 106

Multiple Choice

Ian and Ubed are engineers at Seedling Laboratories. Ubed comments that during a conversation with his neighbor Nick the other day, Nick expressed a common stereotype about foreign employees. What did Nick say?

• A) that most immigrants in the United States are in service-related jobs or in blue-collar positions
• B) that less than a quarter of the scientists and mathematicians in the U.S. are foreign-born
• C) that many of the most educated employees, particularly in STEM, come from abroad
• D) that fewer Americans are working as expatriates in foreign countries than in the past
• E) that because of globalism, being an expatriate is less stressful than most people think

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