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Your background: a BS in Chemistry with hobbyist knowledge in C++, Python and SQL. You like VR and graphics. You live in Canada. You are not a Canadian citizen, but can communicate in English.

Your goal: To become a VR software developer with a successful company, a VR developer at someone else's company, a graphics developer, any developer at all, in that order.

Your method: Obtain a MS in CS, also in Canada, which will take three years.

My recommendation: I do not know of any VR companies in Canada. I do not know of any VR start ups in Canada founded by those with non-traditional CS backgrounds. I do not believe your odds of either starting a VR company in Canada or obtaining employment in VR in Canada to be high. I believe you must move to America to obtain such a position with substantial likelihood.

Graphics is a field with a high knowledge bar. The graphics software developers I know are not just interested in graphics, they are passionate in graphics. Without graphics they would lose part of themselves. They will take substantial, six-figure, pay cuts to work in graphics and expect that passion in other graphics engineers. I do not know if you are that passionate about graphics. I recommend you work in a field other than graphics, which is known for its high-skill and low-pay.

A MS in CS can serve as a foundation for further skills. It can also serve as not a foundation for further skills. I have not met an engineer who has benefited from a MS in CS and I know several such engineers. They did all benefit from leetcode.com however. Perhaps you will prove me wrong. I recommend you do take the MS in CS in whatever you wish to work in, perhaps graphics, but also take courses in things you do not wish to work in, like Perl. Take the time to also prepare for professional interviews.

I am not sending my children to Shanghai so they can learn to not feel inferior to Chinese children. Your question is loaded.

I went to high school in the US. I've seen too many of my (white) friends claim they are inferior to my (asian) friends in mathematics. No race is naturally better at any race at anything. I consider their capitulation a byproduct of the US educational system that fails to teach its domestic students mathematics to-par with their international peers. I had to fight my mathematics teachers and counselors for further mathematics education in high school. The US system is completely unacceptable. That is why I plan on sending my children to a Chinese public school and to be cared for by my relatives.

>Why would being a minority in a authoritarian communist society make your children feel more secure?

This is besides the point. US citizens can securely raise children in China. Some Chinese minorities can securely raise their children, like Manchus and Mongols. Other Chinese minorities cannot, like Uighurs.

edit: I read through your previous comments and I see you have made previous disparaging comments about conservatives in the US. I am far more suspicious of your comment now.

I've encountered this sort of ideology before in education. My plan is to send my children to Chinese public schools in Shanghai. They will live with relatives.

They will obtain a better education, better peers, with none of this article's indoctrination at a cheaper cost.

I will not risk my (white) children believing they are inferior to anyone else in academics.

I do not trust the American education system to bring them up. I have seen my (white) relatives learn they are inferior to their (asian) peers in the American system. I have seen my (white) relatives either buy into the American education system's ideology and also I've seen them reject it in its entirety.

This must be avoided at all costs.