How to raise second-gen kids who can outcompete H1B visa holders

Note: This post has no advice about raising ultra-competitive kids.

I wasn’t planning on a post this week, but it turns out the appointment of

Sriram Krishnan

to the White House stoked a lot of anti-Indian sentiment all through Christmas day on Twitter. The hate is purportedly focused on people on H1B visas (like me) taking away jobs from Americans. But even the most suave ones give themselves away by asking why Germans aren’t being given these visas.

There’s plenty to say on this topic. I wrote a thread of long posts. I also have a thread focused on how a 110 years ago too there was similar hate for Indians.

I came to the US on a student visa, and stayed on on an H1B visa. My daughter, however, is born in the US. As is my husband, whose family ranges from those who fought in the Revolutionary War to refugees from WWI, as well as recent immigrants. In 20 years, are my kids going to be whining about H1B visas on one side, compl…