Smarter immigration policy would give less-skilled immigrants a path to citizenship that could include language and civics requirements.

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Pay attention to their body language before you continue down the same path.

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Just as the bilingual school-teaching which California did away with in 1997 obscured more fundamental problems over achieving literacy in any language, affirmative action channelled good motives down a false path.

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The way to test that is to track back along the branches leading from each existing language, and count the number of splits on each path before you get to the common ancestor of all.

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Nick Cucinella, CEO at CareerBuilder China, advises graduates to have a CV in both English and Chinese, even if they don't speak the language, and that taking the initiative and targeting prospective employers and Chinese companies is the best path to a job.

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