Key points

Cross-cultural exchange leads to greater creativity and successful entrepreneurship.

Being in a romantic relationship with someone from another culture increases creativity.

J-1 visa holders are more entrepreneurial than their stay-at-home peers when they return to their countries.

Immigrants are statistically more likely to generate exceptional creative works.

I’ll risk stepping into the political sphere to discuss a provocative finding: In any country, immigrants are statistically more likely to generate exceptionally creative works. There's a long list of immigrant geniuses: W. H. Auden, Vladimir Nabokov, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Sigmund Freud , and Albert Einstein. But single cases don't make a scientific argument. Do we have any statistical data on this?

In 2016,

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