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Thank you for typing that all out. I agree completely. As a visible minority in tech, I'm simply more attracted to companies where I feel l won't stick out like a sore thumb. Of course I want to hired for my qualifications, but I'm only applying to companies that can meet _my_ requirements as well.

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I don't get this logic. How does it matter if you are a sore thumb if you are not being discriminated? As someone who is also from a visible minority group, it never bothers me unless of course people change their behavior towards me because of the colour of my skin, which I have luckily never experienced.

Please don't feel that I am being condescending; I have come across this statement many times before and I can't understand it.

I think a lot of it has to do with the environment where you grew up and/or have spent a lot of time. I'm white and grew up in a heavily Asian community; when I'm the only white person in a mostly Asian group, I don't feel self-conscious, but when I'm in a mostly black or Latino group, I usually do.

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