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Buuuut this isn't China. It's America. Ethnic diversity is part of the DNA here.
by djtriptych 10y ago
Buuuut this isn't China. It's America. Ethnic diversity is part of the DNA here.
- xienze 10y agoBuuuut the implicit claim is that not being around diversity is somehow bad for you.
- remarkEon 10y agoI think the claim is actually this: not being around sufficient levels of diversity is somehow bad for you.
- monkmartinez 10y agoWhere are the "all" hispanic outreach programs in tech?
- harryjo 10y agohttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/14/to-diversify-work-force-google-grants-1m-to-groups-aiding-silicon-valley.html http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/14/to-diversify-work-fo...
- djtriptych 10y agoFair to mention that Howard U does not discriminate on race in admissions.
- thelock85 10y agoI think the appropriate dig is "where are the Hispanics in tech" and "where are the Hispanics in tech building explicit bridges to their communities." HBCUs are the result of affluent blacks fighting for land grants at the turn of the 20th century since many states refused to grant land for the formation of integrated colleges and universities. This program, love it or hate it, is 100+ years in the making.
- oh_sigh 10y agoNo, it isn't. Sure, in some parts of the country, it is. But in other parts of the country, it isn't. It's part of the DNA basically if you only look at big cities on the coasts.
- harryjo 10y agobig cities on the coasts, and the Southwest, and the Southeast, so, everywhere except the Plains states Also, Palo Alto is a big city on the coast.
- QML 10y agoChina may not be ethnically diverse but certainly it is culturally -- so I don't get the hypothetical born in China example.
- dikdik 10y agoOnly in some areas. I grew up in one of those flyover states, according to wikipedia the demographics of my town were 97% white while I was a teenager (~94% white now). I much prefer being in more diverse areas, but I don't think where I grew up was somehow bad or wrong. It is a very middle class place, so it's not like the minorities were being pushed out, there just weren't many non-white people that wanted/want to live there! ...but to be fair, a lot of white people don't want to live there either, it's quite boring.
- djtriptych 10y agoThe history of housing discrimination in the US would challenge the notion that a middle class suburb would not push out minorities. This practice was rampant in the period after WW2 and continued into the 70s and 80s. It has little to do with notional affordability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
- dikdik 10y agoInteresting. I suppose that could have some effect, but I was not even born until housing discrimination was over with and when I moved into my small town it was largely farmland and not much of a suburb until a decade later. Further, if housing discrimination was still going on in the 90's and 00's, I have no idea where these people were being "pushed out" to. The closest towns/cities with significant racial minority populations were at least 250 miles away...the city I grew up outside of was 90% white (currently 82% white) and there were/are plenty of undesirable locations there. It's middle America, there are just a ton of white people (sorry?).