U. S. and Europe’s approach to foreign students is to westernize them in a way of educating future leaders.

The idea that educating future leaders from other nations will make them more Western has long guided the U. S. and Europe’s generous approach to foreign students of high and low parentage but not everyone thinks it works.

Before widespread use of the Internet, copies of software, books, magazine articles, or films had to be stored on physical media, such as paper, computer disks, or videotape, creating hurdles to distribution, and raising the costs of illegal copies.