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This argument (or more specifically, personal accounts) doesn't really respond to the original argument about a high % of immigrants. Why is there always an in
by FT_intern 10y ago
This argument (or more specifically, personal accounts) doesn't really respond to the original argument about a high % of immigrants.
Why is there always an in-group?
What is the in-group of a place with:
- 10% Asian Americans
- 10% Indian Americans
- 10% various white European immigrants
- 15% Indian immigrants
- 20% Asian immigrants (14% Chinese, 4% Korean, 2% other)
- 25% white Americans
- 5% Black/Hispanic Americans
- 5% Black/Hispanic immigrants
(With 10% females spread among those race/country lines)
What I see happen is that the various groups separately cluster based on country of origin. None of the groups are dominant, so no one person (even a leader of a group) will feel comfortable making inflammatory remarks.
Many times everyone on the team is introverted and no groups form at all.
>Maybe you've been very lucky in your career, and haven't seen the discrimination, or maybe you really are part of the in-group and don't know about it.
Ad hominem? I've been a minority in the most formative years in places where being different is tough and I understand the difficulties. I contrast the experience and demographics of work with those years.
- nostrebored 10y agoThe ingroup there is pretty obvious: being a dude. I don't know how that's even a question -- one group composes 90% of the workplace, and its a group that enjoys special privileges. Racial discrimination and in-grouping isn't the only kind of in-group.