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The Federal government, at least, often distinguishes between minority/majority and underrepresented/overrepresented. Women, for example, are a majority in the
by santaclaus 11y ago
The Federal government, at least, often distinguishes between minority/majority and underrepresented/overrepresented. Women, for example, are a majority in the overall the United States' population, but are underrepresented in technology. 'Asians' are a minority in the overall United States' population, but overrepresented in technology.
- TulliusCicero 11y ago"There aren't enough people from underrepresented groups here" is basically a tautology.
- jdmichal 11y agoIt is, but the existence of underrepresented groups is not a necessity. That is, there is no requirement that there be an underrepresented group. But if there is an underrepresented group, then it is a necessity that not enough people from that group are present. What I'm really trying to say is, that particular phrase is repetitious, but not useless.
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- atom-morgan 11y agoHow convenient.
- chimeracoder 11y ago> 'Asians' are a minority in the overall United States' population, but overrepresented in technology. Because 'Asians' are too broad a category to be meaningful. If a company of 10,000 people had 480 people from China and nobody from any other country east of Turkey, they would have the exact same percentage of "Asian" people as the general population in the US, but that doesn't mean that "Asian" people are not underrepresented at that company.
- a-saleh 11y agoA.f.a.i.k, asian in my mind is kind of similar term to nordic/scandinavian, that it describes a cultural/geographical stereotype. I.e, when someone says asian, I imagine peoples from china, japan and korea, maybe vietnam, but probably not thaiwan and singapore, and definitly not india. So, I am not really sure if there is some more precise definition, that some administrator would use in push for greater diversity.