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's revealing that this story was written by an Indian journalist *who flew here from India*.
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exactly. She knew the details. The languages, the subtle segregation between different ethnic communities, the Whatsapp groups, the specific restaurants.
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(Although I do think an ABCD journo would have caught that too.)
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the one woman quoted on gender issues is interesting though. I wonder if there would be a marked difference between the way first and second-generation women would perceive sexism in the industry.
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It’s night and day. 1st gen are often happy just to be less at risk of (e.g.) street harassment. 2nd gen are fluent in the overall battle being fought, and have the security of place to step up about it.
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I think there's also an aspect of it takes time/experience to learn how systems here are setup to do that. America excels at making systems that aren't obviously white-supremacist, but are still designed to be. Like how public school funding is tied so closely to property taxes.
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schools and housing are a basket good in America. In California, property taxes are equalized at the state level and re-distributed out to local districts.
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What do you mean by 'basket good'? Google is failing me. In CA it's better than other states for sure (i want to say local is still >20% of funding), but in america local taxes account for >40% of public school funding: https://nces.ed.gov/blogs/nces/post/financing-education-national-state-and-local-funding-and-spending-for-public-schools-in-2013 …
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houses and schools go together. When you buy a house, the quality of the school district is priced into the house, which augments both housing & education segregation dynamics... (based on who can afford to be in what community).
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