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> Asian men constantly get grouped as a single entity As an immigrant who came to the US from a poor Eastern European country just a few years ago I feel the s
by KAdot 9y ago
> Asian men constantly get grouped as a single entity
As an immigrant who came to the US from a poor Eastern European country just a few years ago I feel the same about being labeled as "white". It blows my mind that for many people a guy of British descent who was born in the US and a woman from Russia who speaks very poor English are both just "white".
- Asooka 9y agoWell, it's obviously because as a white slavic person you have never been under oppressive slavery like a wealthy black immigrant from Africa! /s
- jnbiche 9y agoIt's not just between foreign whites and American whites. Take a wealthy, white, highly-educated person from Connecticut, and a dirt-poor, white, high-school dropout from rural W. Virginia. Both have "white privilege". And so the poor, under-educated W. Virginian who claws his way up to being a self-educated programmer will be disregarded by Google along with the wealthy Connecticuter. That simple fact bothers me immensely.