Why Do Great Minds Flock to the U.S.? Today is the birthday of Canadian-born novelist Saul Bellow. He, with his siblings, was attracted to Chicago. He flourished in the U.S., becoming one of the greatest novelists, receiving so many prizes and medals, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Could he reach that level in Montréal, Canada? We don’t know. Then, come to the case of composer of Canada’s national anthem (O Canada). Calixa Lavallée, also from Montréal, decamped to the U.S., seeking professional success. Of course, his remains were later brought back from the U.S. to Canada. Bangladesh’s architect teacher didn’t get a simple promotion for lacking the needed crookedness typical of the soil on which he was born and decided to make the U.S. his home. F.R. Khan became the famous architect, and Sears Tower bears his name. We have great minds like Einstein, Pulitzer, Jagdish Bhagawati, and others who are what they are, thanks to the U.S. Not all is bleak for a patriot of Canada, however. Frederick Banting faced extraordinary hurdles in getting into the University of Toronto, stubbornly rejected by Macleod, but he persisted tenaciously. He invented insulin, became the youngest Nobel laureate in Medical Science, one of the greatest men in Canada.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:28:54 +0000
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