It would be nice if we had the linguistic tools to be able to talk about developments like this without using words like "race". Race, IMO, has little to do wit

It would be nice if we had the linguistic tools to be able to talk about developments like this without using words like "race". Race, IMO, has little to do with it - it's all about culture, and asians, especially first and second generation immigrants, tend to have a far stronger academic achievement/science study cultural expectation than other common cultures. There are exceptions, of course, on either side, but I don't think anyone could argue with the general trend. And so the numbers play out exactly as one would expect. I'm not in San Fran but I can tell you the situation is essentially the same here in Sydney. I have been to meetings with startups where everyone but me is asian! The idea of working in high-tech, especially in startups, as a career seems to have been legitimised in the "asian consciousness" over the last decade and, well, here they are. I think it's great. More meat for the grinder, and if the alpha Chinese are showing up it means that computer programming can finally be considered a prestigious career in the popular reckoning. How far we nerds have come.