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None of the doors I was able to open here in the US would have been opened if I were in the UK or Germany... The UK recently had a Prime Minister of Indian des

by dazc 2y ago

None of the doors I was able to open here in the US would have been opened if I were in the UK or Germany... The UK recently had a Prime Minister of Indian descent, that he was able to breakthrough the glass ceiling of racism is quite remarkable given he subsequently was unable to demonstrate a talent for anything.

alephnerd 2y ago
> The UK recently had a Prime Minister of Indian descent And the US had an African American President yet police brutality incidents still occur. And that Prime Minister has anyhow left the UK and returned to California (a couple blocks from the Santa Monica Pier). Some GSB alums are setting up a VC Fund for that PM post-Downing Street as we speak. Hell, his business career only started AFTER he immigrated to the US and then returned to the UK to work at TCM. > he was able to breakthrough the glass ceiling P Money is the ultimate equalizer in a country as status obsessed as the UK. Sunak attended an independent school which his parents were able to afford being specialists. Grammar Schools were shut down in the 80s-90s and comprehensives continue to underperform independent schools in placing students in Russell Group programs. If you're parents were working class, you statistically will remain working class. Intergenerational Social Mobility remains lows in the UK [0][1][2][3], and add to that economic depression in the North+Midlands and the very real othering that happens in the UK and that has caused the Mirpuri community to remain economically deprived. -------- In the US I never get asked where I'm from, or told that "my English is excellent", or after a couple pints with coworkers get told "you're one of the good ones". Yet I've faced this kinda BS ALL THE TIME whenever I'm in the UK for work. It's worse on the mainland. Fundamentally, in the US I am not treated as a token nor do I face microagressions. In the UK or Mainland Europe I have to deal with both. [0] - https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/from-briefings-07-april-2022.html https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/from-briefin... [1] - https://ifs.org.uk/news/social-mobility-continues-fall-and-moving-harder-if-you-grow-north-or-midlands https://ifs.org.uk/news/social-mobility-continues-fall-and-m... [2] - https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/fixing-the-ladder-how-uk-businesses-benefit-from-better-social-mobility https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insigh... [3] - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.13095 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.1...

by dazc 2y ago

alephnerd 2y ago

> The UK recently had a Prime Minister of Indian descent And the US had an African American President yet police brutality incidents still occur. And that Prime Minister has anyhow left the UK and returned to California (a couple blocks from the Santa Monica Pier). Some GSB alums are setting up a VC Fund for that PM post-Downing Street as we speak. Hell, his business career only started AFTER he immigrated to the US and then returned to the UK to work at TCM. > he was able to breakthrough the glass ceiling P Money is the ultimate equalizer in a country as status obsessed as the UK. Sunak attended an independent school which his parents were able to afford being specialists. Grammar Schools were shut down in the 80s-90s and comprehensives continue to underperform independent schools in placing students in Russell Group programs. If you're parents were working class, you statistically will remain working class. Intergenerational Social Mobility remains lows in the UK [0][1][2][3], and add to that economic depression in the North+Midlands and the very real othering that happens in the UK and that has caused the Mirpuri community to remain economically deprived. -------- In the US I never get asked where I'm from, or told that "my English is excellent", or after a couple pints with coworkers get told "you're one of the good ones". Yet I've faced this kinda BS ALL THE TIME whenever I'm in the UK for work. It's worse on the mainland. Fundamentally, in the US I am not treated as a token nor do I face microagressions. In the UK or Mainland Europe I have to deal with both. [0] - https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/from-briefings-07-april-2022.html https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/from-briefin... [1] - https://ifs.org.uk/news/social-mobility-continues-fall-and-moving-harder-if-you-grow-north-or-midlands https://ifs.org.uk/news/social-mobility-continues-fall-and-m... [2] - https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/fixing-the-ladder-how-uk-businesses-benefit-from-better-social-mobility https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insigh... [3] - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.13095 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.1...