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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As the economy continues to become more global, U.S. businesses face another important form of diversity: More and more employees are foreign-born. Although stereotypes view immigrants as staffing blue-collar or service jobs, many of the most educated employees come from abroad. Consider that half of the PhDs working in the United States are foreign-born, as are 45 percent of the physicists, computer scientists, and mathematicians.

Ian and Ubed Are Engineers at Seedling Laboratories