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You do not see brown people ? Have you, I don't know, been to any tech company ? where vast majorities of engineering groups are brown people ?

by dmode 6y ago

wpasc 6y ago
Not either of the posters, but in many demographic calculations, those of Indian descent are often referred to as "Asian" or "Indian" with "Brown" often referring to African-descendant or Hispanic.
- dmode 6y ago
  The parent poster was making a broader point about "diversity". Unless they consider "Indians" as not diverse, that broader point doesn't stand either. Bay Area has many many towns with Asian majority - San Jose, Fremont, Sunnyvale, Milpitas, Dublin etc. come to mind. That comment was really ignorant
  - newen 6y ago
    I've been to San Francisco proper and Indians are pretty rare there. You'd have to go outside the city to see a lot of Indians.
    - dmode 6y ago
      San Francisco 40% Asian
      - newen 6y ago
        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco > As of the 2010 census, the ethnic makeup and population of San Francisco included: 390,387 whites (48%), 267,915 Asians (33%), 48,870 African Americans (6%), and others. There were 121,744 Hispanics or Latinos of any race (15%). > In 2010, residents of Chinese ethnicity constituted the largest single ethnic minority group in San Francisco at 21% of the population; the other Asian groups are Filipinos (5%) and Vietnamese (2%). So less than 5% Indian.
- bumby 6y ago
  There’s some interesting history here where the courts definition of caucasian used to include south Asians and was subsequently changed to prevent their naturalization. As an aside, I often cringe at arguments involving skin-deep diversity. I’ve lived in towns that bragged of diversity when in reality they tended toward the same monolithic affluent culture regardless of skin tone.
umeshunni 6y ago
Most white liberals like to pretend like Asians, including Indians, don't exist (or worse, consider them 'white'). It runs counter to a lot of their narratives regarding diversity, immigration etc.

You do not see brown people ? Have you, I don't know, been to any tech company ? where vast majorities of engineering groups are brown people ?

by dmode 6y ago

You do not see brown people ? Have you, I don't know, been to any tech company ? where vast majorities of engineering groups are brown people ?

wpasc 6y ago

Not either of the posters, but in many demographic calculations, those of Indian descent are often referred to as "Asian" or "Indian" with "Brown" often referring to African-descendant or Hispanic.

dmode 6y ago
The parent poster was making a broader point about "diversity". Unless they consider "Indians" as not diverse, that broader point doesn't stand either. Bay Area has many many towns with Asian majority - San Jose, Fremont, Sunnyvale, Milpitas, Dublin etc. come to mind. That comment was really ignorant
- newen 6y ago
  I've been to San Francisco proper and Indians are pretty rare there. You'd have to go outside the city to see a lot of Indians.
  - dmode 6y ago
    San Francisco 40% Asian
    - newen 6y ago
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco > As of the 2010 census, the ethnic makeup and population of San Francisco included: 390,387 whites (48%), 267,915 Asians (33%), 48,870 African Americans (6%), and others. There were 121,744 Hispanics or Latinos of any race (15%). > In 2010, residents of Chinese ethnicity constituted the largest single ethnic minority group in San Francisco at 21% of the population; the other Asian groups are Filipinos (5%) and Vietnamese (2%). So less than 5% Indian.
bumby 6y ago
There’s some interesting history here where the courts definition of caucasian used to include south Asians and was subsequently changed to prevent their naturalization. As an aside, I often cringe at arguments involving skin-deep diversity. I’ve lived in towns that bragged of diversity when in reality they tended toward the same monolithic affluent culture regardless of skin tone.

umeshunni 6y ago

Most white liberals like to pretend like Asians, including Indians, don't exist (or worse, consider them 'white'). It runs counter to a lot of their narratives regarding diversity, immigration etc.