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I am fascinated by this thread. Can we also get a "What do you think of white developers?", "What do you think of women developers?". /s tl;dr: It is just a po
by eshvk 13y ago
I am fascinated by this thread. Can we also get a "What do you think of white developers?", "What do you think of women developers?". /s
tl;dr: It is just a population of homo sapiens. You will have good and bad people.
- zachlatta 13y agoI think the question is referring to the cultural norms of programmers with an Indian background. malux85's answer discusses this well.
- eshvk 13y agoAnd that makes my (snarky) question any less valid. Why not talk about the cultural norms of white programmers from the midwest? Why not talk about the cultural norms of girl programmers then? The problem with shit like this is it can act as a heuristic that you can use to feed your confirmation bias or it can bite you the fuck in the ass. E.g. not every guy of an Indian ethnicity is a yes man to use ideas from malux85's anecdote. Neither are women inherently bad at math or computer science to use Larry Summers's stupid-ass argument.
- zachlatta 13y agoWell, of course not. However, cultural norms are very important to take into account when working with people of all backgrounds. There's a very fine, yet important line between taking cultural norms into account and forming stereotypes.