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It's also curious that everything that ever seems to be published on diversity - especially in technology - seems to focus either on the percentage of represent
by clifanatic 10y ago
It's also curious that everything that ever seems to be published on diversity - especially in technology - seems to focus either on the percentage of representation of black people or the percentage of representation of women. I guess this author focused on the percentage of representation of black people because he's black, and that impacts him, but just anecdotally based on the 25 years I've been doing this, I'd say that Indian people (men and women) are vastly overrepresented as a percentage of the tech workforce. Is that due to racial preferences for Indian people? Articles like this would seem to draw that conclusion - either the underrepresentation of black people is not due to racism or the overrepresentation of Indian people must be, correct? I also find it interesting that people are studying, say, the representation by gender and race but not, say, religion - how under/over represented are Jewish people or Muslim people in technology? Are there biases there?
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoThere's a backstory to all this - Indian immigration is largely folks with wealthy backgrounds and high education. That's understandable without resorting to color. But Americans from similar schools and similar levels of wealth are not hired in Silicon Valley - we look for another reason. And it happens to correlate with skin color. Just looking at stats and pretending that's the whole story is disingenuous.