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Comment by wetpaws | Hacker News Reader

I had a Chinese manager once, who got hired, started discriminating against existing employer, promoting only Chinese people and bringing other Chinese people to key positions, openly. In a year whole business unit imploded. Racism and disregard for rules are culturally ingrained in them.

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Same thing with some Indians in Silicon Valley. See eBay and PayPal as prime examples. That said there are enclaves within some companies of teams that are 90% one ethnicity be it Chinese, Indian, Eastern European or Israeli. Sort of the technology version of prisons being segregated ethnically. Really weird.

> That said there are enclaves within some companies of teams that are 90% one ethnicity be it Chinese, Indian, Eastern European or Israeli.

But the most common scenario (90% white US-born male) isn’t as weird?

Considering the US is, you know, the US and a majority white country, it's not weird at all.

Indians and chinese make up something like 5% of the US population so for them to take up 90% of a select group can really only be caused by favoritism. Unless you want to open up the can of worms that certain races are just so far genetically superior in terms of intelligence that they are 20x more represented

Do you think it's normal for tech companies located in India and China to have parts of their company that are 90% white?

It doesn't have to be genetics or favouritism. It's most likely cultural stuff.

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