> Tech companies, Lewis said, "do not want to employ Americans. They import labor from overseas, pushing for H-1B visas. Check the job boards. They basically say, 'H-1B Visa. Americans need not apply.' For years, women, blacks and Latinos have been kept out of the tech job market. Now white men are being forced to train their replacements."
What does the h1-b visa have to do with Asian Americans? Apparently she believes that only women, black, latino and white people can count as "american".
Also, the idea that "Asian Culture" has a particularly "deep work ethic" or dedication to eduction is confirmation bias. Asians who immigrated to America were a self-selected group of highly educated people who aspired to a better life.
It's also not wise to provoke animosity against immigrants generally. Most of these people are going to become "Americans" soon enough. They are here, contributing to the economy and culture, paying taxes etc.
We are a nation of immigrants .. cliched but true. Newcomers should be welcomed and celebrated.
Can anyone point to a few examples of this? I've never seen it.
[1] https://brightfuturejobs.nationbuilder.com/assets/pages/15/N...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
They'll teach you how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified American applicants.
You can thank them directly here: http://www.cohenlaw.com
[1] - http://gladwell.com/outliers/rice-paddies-and-math-tests/
Malcolm Gladwell says (sells) a lot of shit. Literally.
Checks GDP per Capita[1]. I believe she meant "some Americans don't appreciate the Asian culture, where some Asians have a deep worth ethic that some Americans haven't bought really bought into yet."
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
example: college admissions.
source: my parents and their friends for the past 3 decades.
Clearly, this article is just the white supremacists and their power structures writing puff pieces to hide the slavery lurking within the black heart of the Valley?
Take this anecdotal datum with a huge grain of salt, and season it further with the fact that I'm dredging up memories from ten years ago. Maybe it was Indians (yes, a subset of Asians, I realize), I don't know. I just remember asking HR about $NON_WHITE_GUY, and was told he didn't count because (paraphrasing) "successful minority group in software".
Nobody—I repeat, nobody at all—is claiming that "the Valley is dominated by racist white men who systematically exclude all outgroups." That's not a thing. Nobody's saying it, except you.
However, people are quite correctly and accurately pointing out that there is an underrepresentation of minority groups in tech. It's great the Asian tech workers aren't suffering from this - but that's not the only problem! In other words, the target of attack is not "white men", but underrepresentation of other groups!
Ignoring for the moment that this article is out-of-date, you'll see from the numbers contained in it that while Asian-American workers proliferate, a mere 4.2% of tech jobs are taken by Hispanics - despite this being a group that forms fully 25% of the population of the area. The same vastly disproportionate numbers apply to other groups. And that's without even getting started on the social and economic issues surrounding the fact that these are H1B workers.
There's no quick and easy solution to this problem, but your gross mischaracterisations do absolutely nothing to help.
Have you read Shanley Kane?
✓ Blame Game: "Now white men are being forced to train their replacements."
✓ Biased Reporting.
Apparently anyone can be a "journalist" now a days. Do you guys remember all those articles about San Francisico Gentrification a few weeks back? All complaining about how the evil white male tech workers were taking up real estate? Ooops. Turns out 50% of the tech workers are Asian. Funny how that was left out. I'm having a hard time believing anything anymore.
I guess there's no such thing as a fluctuation anymore. Every change is a conspiracy.
It is no secret that the tech industry is furious with the salaries it is forced to pay engineers. This drives billionaires batshit crazy, enough so that they're willing to pay lobbyists millions to constantly increase the number of impoverished foreign engineers imported on tenuous "work visas".
A cursory glance at history puts this in perspective. Oligarchs and feudal lords went to considerable lengths to ensure the average artisan received little more than a subsistence wage. Furthermore, taxes were for the little people, not the elites. "Government" has historically been a protection racket made for the elite, by the elite. Any delusions to the contrary have been put to rest quite conclusively [1].
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/opinion/capitalism-vs-demo...
