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Getting Here

Words to Understand diaspora a group of people who live outside the area in which their ancestors lived discriminatory treating some people better than others without any fair or proper reason entrepreneur someone who starts a business first-generation American someone born in the United States whose parents were foreign born immigrants those who enter another country intending to stay permanently A nirudh Dinesh is a graduate student who came to America in 2015 to study computer science and cyber security. “Almost everyone knows that it’s im- portant to keep your software programs safe fromviruses and hackers, but my field is hardware security,” he explains. “That means trying to find ways to keep the computer chips and physical computing devices themselves safe. Because most of the research and development centers related to this very specialized area are in

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