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Asian workers now dominate Silicon Valley tech jobs (2012)

27 点作者 crassus大约 11 年前

8 条评论

argumentum大约 11 年前
The statements made by Yolanda Lewis in this article are disturbingly racist.<p>&gt; <i>Tech companies, Lewis said, &quot;do not want to employ Americans. They import labor from overseas, pushing for H-1B visas. Check the job boards. They basically say, &#x27;H-1B Visa. Americans need not apply.&#x27; 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.&quot;</i><p>What does the h1-b visa have to do with Asian <i>Americans</i>? Apparently she believes that only women, black, latino and white people can count as &quot;american&quot;.<p>Also, the idea that &quot;Asian Culture&quot; has a particularly &quot;deep work ethic&quot; 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.
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afarrell大约 11 年前
&quot;&quot;&quot; Tech companies, Lewis said, &quot;do not want to employ Americans. They import labor from overseas, pushing for H-1B visas. Check the job boards. They basically say, &#x27;H-1B Visa. Americans need not apply.&#x27; &quot;&quot;&quot;<p>Can anyone point to a few examples of this? I&#x27;ve never seen it.
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crypt1d大约 11 年前
There is an interesting observation about Asian cultures made by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers [1]. He argues that one of the reasons why Asians are _statistically_ better at math than others is because of the language and cultural legacy. More precisely, it is a lot easier to remember numbers in Chinese (and other Asian languages, apparently) than in English, giving Chinese children a head start in mathematics. This turns into quite an advantage by the time they reach college. He also argues that societies that were developed on rice farming tend to be more diligent as it is a lot more labor intensive work than ,for example, wheat farming. Also Chinese feudalism had more of a &quot;hands off&quot; approach, where the landlords were always taking a fixed amount of their earnings. So while Europeans were making pretty much the same amount of money during all their harvests, Asians had an income which was more proportional to their efforts. There is a lot more to it for sure, and I don&#x27;t know if he is right, but its certainly a nice read.<p>[1] - <a href="http://gladwell.com/outliers/rice-paddies-and-math-tests/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gladwell.com&#x2F;outliers&#x2F;rice-paddies-and-math-tests&#x2F;</a>
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dominotw大约 11 年前
This is from 2012. Maybe put that in the title ?
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yardie大约 11 年前
&gt; as a 19-year-old junior at SJSU studying computer science, Leu said many non-Asians don&#x27;t appreciate &quot;the Asian culture, where there is a deep work ethic that America hasn&#x27;t really bought into yet.&quot;<p>Checks GDP per Capita[1]. I believe she meant &quot;some Americans don&#x27;t appreciate the Asian culture, where some Asians have a deep worth ethic that some Americans haven&#x27;t bought really bought into yet.&quot;<p>[1]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...</a>
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obvious_throw大约 11 年前
That&#x27;s so strange. According to Shanley Kane and Anil Dash, the Valley is dominated by racist white men who systematically exclude all outgroups.<p>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?
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ChrisNorstrom大约 11 年前
✓ Victim Complex: &quot;For years, women, blacks and Latinos have been kept out of the tech job market.&quot;<p>✓ Blame Game: &quot;Now white men are being forced to train their replacements.&quot;<p>✓ Biased Reporting.<p>Apparently anyone can be a &quot;journalist&quot; 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&#x27;m having a hard time believing anything anymore.<p>I guess there&#x27;s no such thing as a fluctuation anymore. Every change is a conspiracy.
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FD3SA大约 11 年前
What fascinates me the most about this and related issues is that there is a relentless drive towards reducing the rights and compensation for salaried workers, while increasing the rights and powers of entrenched, powerful, wealthy elites.<p>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&#x27;re willing to pay lobbyists millions to constantly increase the number of impoverished foreign engineers imported on tenuous &quot;work visas&quot;.<p>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. &quot;Government&quot; 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].<p>1. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/opinion/capitalism-vs-democracy.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;capitalism-vs-demo...</a>