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Interesting information regarding Burmese. Do you have a source?
by gpetukhov 9y ago
Interesting information regarding Burmese. Do you have a source?
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThe Chinese side is really easy, they just don’t take in immigrants. On the Bay Area side, well, count the number of Burmese restaurants in Palo Alto and Mountain View. Google doesn’t release its nationality breakdown, but there are going to be a few Burmese in there mix just going by the Bay Area population. And that’s why American tech companies have a huge advantage over Chinese tech companies when it comes to going international. Immigration.
- gpetukhov 9y agoI understand but in your comment above you mentioned that there are more Burmese at Google than at all the Chinese tech companies. I get that that was just an exaggeration.
- barry-cotter 9y agoThere are ~166k Burmese in America. There are around 42k Burmese in China. Given the differences in education between the US and China it would be very easy for Google to employ more Burmese than the entire Chinese internet industry.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoIt’s not just that, but Burmese in the USA are concentrated in tech corridors (e.g. the Bay Area) while in china they are mostly refugees in Yunnan.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoIt really isn’t though. There is probably something close to zero Burmese working in the Chinese industry, and anecdotally I’ve met a few working for Facebook/google/etc in the Bay Area. The Chinese tech industry is so homogenous (99.9% Chinese) while the American tech industry is anything but (at least with respect to Asian diversity, 40% foreign born, at least, higher in places like the Bay Area).