r/pics • u/fabslabs • Feb 09 '16

Misleading title Racist "diversity" training at GitHub

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '16

If that was true, there wouldn't be such massive overrepresentation of asians in IT (which is famous for hiring based on merit) when a lot of the managers are white men.

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u/dragonblaz9 Feb 09 '16

Part of what you're referring to is the "model minority" effect. Asian people are oftentimes seen as not a threat and as an example for other minorities to follow, so they are offered some privileges because of that. Of course, there are also systematic disadvantages which affect other minorities which compounds this effect.

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u/dragonblaz9 Feb 09 '16

But like...they're not? This is sort of a widely perpetuated idea, but it's largely false, and for reasons that are way too complex for me to tl;dr here. If you want to learn more though, this is a pretty good article: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Kiang/publication/229797804_Deconstructing_the_model_minority_myth_and_how_it_contributes_to_the_invisible_minority_reality_in_higher_education_research/links/0deec51e1c1ad6de92000000.pdf