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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by andybak on Sunday February 18, 2018 @06:42PM (#16409613)
> Would we then think of china and japan as mostly racist

Actually yes. I don't think that's far-fetched by our standards. And on the whole I'm quite proud of the distance we in the West have travelled on this issue.

However - the reason we're where we are is because slavery, colonialism and immigration have rather forced us to confront the issue in a way that other nations have not needed to.

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by shard972 on Sunday February 18, 2018 @06:44PM (#16409622)
Well I'm western too and from my personal experience I don't think they are racist.
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by bzbarsky on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:57PM (#16410845)
People in China are in fact racist by Western definitions. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15745355 for details. As I said in that comment, it's not because they're _bad_ people; it's a natural outcome of the way humans stereotype.
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