Re:Being a Developer After 40
by mortenjorck on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:00AM
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I was astonished when I first learned that in the United States, it wasn't until partway through the 20th Century that people of Italian or Jewish ancestry were considered "white."
Isn't that a myth? Like pink and blue supposedly previously having been associated with the reverse genders.
Re:Being a Developer After 40
by shrewduser on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:35AM
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not a myth, although popularly touted as a myth by people to whom this fact is inconvenient. it's very easy to google examples of racism towards irish and italian immigrants.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=irish+need+not+apply&sour...
here's where the "myth myth" started and was easily debunked by a high school student
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/High-school-studen...
But as generations of "white" Americans have learned, if you dress from the JC Penney or Sears catalogue, forbid your children from learning their ancestral language, and forget your cultural traditions, you can be white too! It works!