RT-ing this does not mean I fully agree with all of this. I just grew up in a majority Asian-American community in Silicon Valley and think that the tensions between first- and second-generation Asian-Americans is largely unexplored by mainstream media.
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no the quality of the reporting has gotten a lot better over the last 5 years.
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it's more of a prestige beat now that it was a decade ago.
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Also important to note that 1st gen workers are the ones most likely to be on a visa status that leaves them probe to exploitation.
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While American journalists fixate on the dumb, clickbaity raw water stories, this is one of the best stories I've read on tech & Silicon Valley culture in the last few years or so.http://www.addastories.org/welcome-to-the-bay-area/ …
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It was like West Coast Jhumpa Lahiri.
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I don't think people understand how important people fleeing from the best universities in Germany during WWII was for American science, the Manhattan Project, etc., then people leaving China, India, SEAsia in the 1960s-1990s, or Iranians in the late 1970s, early 1980s.
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Are you saying that the people from San Salvador that takes an illegal train ride to the US are critical to the success of Silicon Valley?
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Parentals crossed a border? Aye many go adult with no answer to "where's home”, as if a “third culture kid” <= 9m video 2013https://vimeo.com/41264088
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But aren't Asian-Asians blogging and tweeting on their experience back to their home countries (which might not be picked up in the US). This is also important expansion of Asian SV influence
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