>even if you come from a highly ranked university in Latin America, getting a job outside of it is quite hard, and most people will implicitly or explicitly discriminate against you.
Anecdotally as US-native, I’ve been surprised with how detailed and impassioned my foreign-born econ professors (already highly accomplished and usually growing up privileged within their home country) could be about the history of US discrimination towards its own citizens. It felt like they were trying to convey the gravity of discrimination but could only do so using the most respectable sources they could find. One professor even talked about the famous paper about discrimination towards black-sounding names on resumes using the words “we had to fight for this”.
>even if you come from a highly ranked university in Latin America, getting a job outside of it is quite hard, and most people will implicitly or explicitly discriminate against you.
Anecdotally as US-native, I’ve been surprised with how detailed and impassioned my foreign-born econ professors (already highly accomplished and usually growing up privileged within their home country) could be about the history of US discrimination towards its own citizens. It felt like they were trying to convey the gravity of discrimination but could only do so using the most respectable sources they could find. One professor even talked about the famous paper about discrimination towards black-sounding names on resumes using the words “we had to fight for this”.