Bay Area: Join us next week, 8/17, to talk about diversity (or lack thereof) in tech

Slack engineering director Leslie Miley will talk about problems with diversity in Silicon Valley.

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That may have had something to do with how we were 'over represented' at the time (and now), and so last to be picked based on all other factors being equivalent.

And even with that, we're still 40% or so of the UC system...

"Asians", yes, "Asian-Americans", not so much.

There are a lot of international students from Asian countries who think that an American University degree is very desirable, and they tend to pay full price at out-of-state rates.

Enough to account for 40%? Not to mention a UC system school allowing 40% foreigners?

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30393117/ns/u ... ns-policy/

40% Asian-Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School

Stuyvesant High School, NYC. 73% Asian.

 

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Its a two prong problem:
1. Its highly looked down upon in almost every Asian culture to bring attention to yourself, whether that's east Asia or south Asia and everything in between.
2. Asian American's in the US are taught from a very young age that the struggles of Hispanic and African Americans are ours to share and that speaking out against being put down in their favor is racist.

If you're an Asian, you will receive no sympathy from any group. We have learned to be self sufficient because no one else will help us. The federal government doesn't care and neither do sate government or private school entities. I remember in University how my high income friends from Hispanic and Afro-american families were getting thousands of dollars in race based scholarships from companies and the government, getting free paid retreats to resorts in Upstate NY paid for by CSTEP (a government funded program) and getting hundreds of dollars in cash from random programs at every CSTEP meeting while poor Asians had to work 3 jobs to afford food. This was years ago and now that my cousins are old enough to be attending university, I hear nothing different from them. But you wont find anyone in the media or the government being mad about it.

This was largely my experience as well (except for #2 above). I was born in the US but I've experienced racism from both sides. And I hear it now from older Asian coworkers who have kids entering college. It's definitely a huge concern when you have kids who excel compared to their peers but still don't bother applying to top schools like Ivy's because they think it's a waste of time.

I mentioned Stuyvesant because I had some cousins who went to school there. They came to the US in the 80s, lived, not in poverty, but meagerly with some family in Queens, did well and tested in. That kind of is the American dream right there.

 

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MlautheFilthy[/url]":3qynr9dh]Oh man, this thread has been a ton of fun

Yeah guys, even the popcorn is stale at this point.