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by potatolicious
4241 days ago
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> "Even if you don't count Asians (I guess they're not minorities?)" We are, and we have our own problems with race and tech (see: representation of Asians overall vs. representation of Asians in leadership positions), but the Asian-American experience is fundamentally different from the Black- or Hispanic-American experience. We are also frequently used as bludgeons against other races. As if the disparity between Asian enrollment in schools and Black enrollment comes simply down to working hard enough. It's important to note that some of this "Asians as bludgeons against other races" comes from Asian individuals. Asians in America do not fit into a simplistic race narrative. We are not "as good as" whites, but neither do we have many of the same problems that face Blacks and Hispanics. There was an article I read about the nature of being Asian in tech, and one quote stuck out to me: "we have a problem, and we are a problem, at the same time". The presence of Asians should not be mistaken as the lack of a race and diversity problem. |
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Well, in some key ways (at least for tech) Asians are better - e.g. a +0.5 SD average IQ boost really helps for the cognitive and analytical challenges that are commonly encountered in the tech/programming worlds.