[ekiminmo]

According to the article, 85% of applicants were Asian. Does anyone ever ask why that ratio is so high?

My wife (who is Asian) graduated from Australia's top high school, where 90% of students are Asian. She and her friends now go to the most prestigious universities in Australia where they study medicine, law and engineering.

She explained to me that as a child of Asian parents if you can't get into medicine, you get into law. If you can't do law, you do engineering or commerce. It really doesn't matter if you want to be a musician or a photographer or do something else with your life. The end product is that we have a huge number of Asian kids graduating from top universities in professions that they don't personally care about, and I bet that comes out in the interview.

I don't believe that people should be discriminated on for their race, but I wonder how much racial diversity gets swept under the rug in the debate. Sometimes racial values stand in direct or indirect opposition to the values of other cultures. Perhaps Asian culture has opposing values to the culture of the software industry, and when that emerges in hiring statistics law suits get filed.