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Comment by dominotw | Hacker News Reader

>woman and minority in tech

its a bit of stretch to call Indians a minority in tech, if anything we are vastly over-represented by any standard.

For purposes of bullying all that matters is that you are standing out and are weak. This can be taking all sorts of forms:

- younger

- older

- skin

- gender

- introvert

- education

All that matters is there is an abuser that for whatever internal reasons completely out of your control is acting out against you. That acting out is persistent as such persons are driven by internal irrational mechanisms often related to their broken attachment system.

The environment is either going along with it if it is a gang leader or are passive standing by. For bullying at the workplace to take place often the management level above has to be either endorsing or more likely ignoring it (conflict of interest, fear, ignorance, distracted by crisis).

> we are vastly over-represented by any standard.

Population India in 2013 : 1.3 billion

Number of Indians in the technology sector = ?

Lets be generous and say that all Indians in the USA work in the tech sector. That would be 2 million. Then lets be even more generous and add the entire population of Bangalore, 4 million as tech workers. 6E6/1.3E9 = 0.4 percent.

That's a simple standard showing that you are a minority and under-represented on a global level.

Considering the entire population of India is an absurd premise when discussing Asian-Indian representation in the US tech sector. Asian-Indians make up about 1% of the US population - I don't know how many work in tech in the USA, but I can guarantee you it's a greater share than 1%.