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> You can suggest that coverage is inaccurate or unfair, but suggesting that tech should not be covered with an investigative lens is hard to argue. That's bec
by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
> You can suggest that coverage is inaccurate or unfair, but suggesting that tech should not be covered with an investigative lens is hard to argue.
That's because he's being very charitable to what is happening. In fact, under the guise of aggressively investigative coverage, the media is constantly propagating false memes about the industry. Biggest example is the idea that it's dominated by a culture of white tech bros, when in fact it's dominated by highly educated and hard-working Indian and Chinese immigrants.
- throwaway1777 4y agoToo on the nose. When I worked at faang almost my entire org was Indians.
- PradeetPatel 4y agoThe generalisation of "Indians" in the tech sector is doing a lot more harm than one may think. India is a massive country, with some of the most diverse range of cultures and people. The fact that most FAANG CEOs are Indians should speak volumes. Negative stereotyping hurts everyone, only by acceptance and embrace our differences can we move forward.
- bagels 4y agoDo you consider "Indians" to be pejorative?
- SuoDuanDao 4y agoHe probably considers being lumped in with certain other Indians pejorative. It's funny, on producing that interpretation my first thought was 'He must be high caste'. Now that's a negative stereotype!
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- xwolfi 4y agoWell it's less pejorative than "white tech bros" which encompasses an even broader range of cultural variations.
- ramraj07 4y agoDo you mean Indian or Indian looking? Can you generally tell which of them were American citizens vs. immigrants? If not, can you see the pretentiousness in your statement?
- SuoDuanDao 4y agoPeople actually discriminate a lot more on accent than looks - which makes sense as an adaptive strategy, since accent is a much better signal of tribal association. And if one pays attention to accent it's pretty obvious who's an immigrant and who grew up locally.
- rayiner 4y agoThink about this the next time you read a New York Times article on some other bad industry: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/ https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
- swooni 4y ago> Biggest example is the idea that it's dominated by a culture of white tech bros, when in fact it's dominated by highly educated and hard-working Indian and Chinese immigrants. Those are two related but also completely different things. Just because immigrants work at these companies doesn't mean they have a large impact on the overall culture, especially not the outward facing culture, and they certainly aren't dominating it. If anything those groups are underrepresented in culturally influential positions.
- ksidudwbw 4y agoHow many white tech bros in india etc etc
- AbrahamParangi 4y agoI don't understand how you can say this when many of the largest tech companies have first immigrant CEOs. Of the top 10 tech companies globally, 4 (Meta, Apple, Tesla and Amazon) have CEOs of European descent. Is the position of CEO not "culturally influential"?
- vietthan 4y agoWe would need to look at the ethnicity statistics across C-level executives. Rishi Sunak is the British PM but I can say "UK politics and government is still dominated by Whites" and the British Parliament would agree with me [1] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01156/ https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01...
- AbrahamParangi 4y agoThat document says that Britain is 87% white I mean I don't know what you expect.
- vietthan 4y agoyes, that's exactly what I meant. I was demonstrating that just because the top guy is a member of the minority group does not mean that organization is "influenced" by minority group. Edit: I finally read the context again. Yes the top guy is a member of a minority group, and of course he will have some cultural influence. But people will disagree whether the minority group is _at the right level of influence_.