"There are 2 groups of Asians in Silicon Valley, Asian-Americans & Asian-Asians. Asian-Americans are the most visible; they found companies, write blog posts, sit on panels & weigh in on debates around diversity. Asian-Asians are the dark matter of tech." https://www.facebook.com/xianhang/posts/10100291984325061?pnref=story …
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Nit: Can we do better than "Asian"? Nonsensical, confusing, homogenizing. What better vocab exists for distinguishing South/East/Southeast/Central Asian cultures.
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Yeah, I don't know. I try to shift between East Asian and South Asian, but it's still weird.
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I am half Japanese and I think you are right.
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Same thing exists in Vancouver. Asian-Canadians (many of them here 100+ years) have an uneasy relation with the Chinese nouveau riche who are making a large footprint here
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Or H1-B vs non-H1B......
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Those pesky Indian Chinese and Chinese Iranians. Some real dark matter..
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That is interesting. Definitely saw those tensions around Peter Liang protests in SV
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I think the larger companies will try to shift people to Canada instead. Amazon and Facebook are opening huge new buildings in Vancouver to house around 2000 workers. Games industry in Montreal has been ramping up for the last decade, surpassing Van
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Definitely large Asian-Asian presence here in Van vs Asian Canadian
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i think there should be more discussion around the immigrant experience in general -- it's very diverse and nuanced and lots of assumptions are made about many of us, esp around identity
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Even within that - not all Asian communities are the same
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