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I am not Chinese. I work in chip company and vast majority of EE engineers are Chinese. White americans may be 1-2% percentage at the junior level. It may be less than 10% overall. There are some older white americans but they all will retire soon. Like I said before, nobody to blame. Follow the easy money.

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I don't know where you work, but this seems like a weirdly racist thing to say.

Based on my experience, it's also complete bullshit.

I work at a chip company in the US. Our (chip engineering) workforce is probably about half White Americans. The other half are predominantly Indian, with significant numbers of other Asians. (It's also almost entirely male, because 2018.)

At my previous employer, also a chip company in the US, the workforce was even more heavily skewed to White Americans. Probably at least 70%.

I can point to a great number of very smart, hard-working, dedicated, and capable co-workers in every one of these racial groups.

it's racist for op to observe racial trends at the workplace? Please stop diluting the term.

Same in the companies I've contracted for, not really that many east Asians, almost all American and Indians

I think we kinda need a new word for Chinese Chinese. Are they ethnic Chinese but actually American, as American Chinese, or are they Chinese Chinese?

No, You SHOULD blame the "Management" who cannot think past lining their own pockets.

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