The power of role models

Re:The power of role models by 4ad on Sunday February 26, 2017 @12:43PM (#13738491)

Western organisations like Google or universities are spectacular at this. They fill their rooms with asians, women, black people, gays, lesbians, phds of all subjects, and yet they all act and talk like western white males. Yes, even the women.

Coming from a country at the boundary between east and west, poor and developed, civilisation and 3rd world, I find it fascinating how there is less diversity of thought at Google (where people come from all over the place, have all the colors and sexual orientations) then a random group of old people in some fundamentalist rural area in my home country.

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Re:The power of role models by bitexploder on Sunday February 26, 2017 @01:09PM (#13738634)

Yes. This meritocracy smells religious in some ways. It speaks to the elite technologist. They begin to value merit, but it gets warped into "merit that is important to me". Smart people are great at biasing themselves into their own strange worlds of monocultute.

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