How does that explain the success of Asian Americans?
Strictly in business terms, sure they have more success than other groups, but I don't think (assuming here, no facts) they have over taken White people as the predominant group in leadership roles, high paying positions, or otherwise 'stakeholders'.
If that's not true, feel free to correct.
[1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/fact-sheet/asian-americans-in...
[2] https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/visualizations...
Skilled immigration is awesome for the US.
> over taken White people as the predominant group in leadership roles, high paying positions, or otherwise 'stakeholders'
Is that the bar here? Median household income has always been the bar when talking about the success of racial groups, not the number in leadership roles etc etc. I mean, are we only supposed to be satisfied when 4.8% of all leadership roles are held by Asian Americans? What about their cultural preferences? What about regional populations?
The truth is actual a lot more nuanced. It essentially boils down to a cultural and pipeline problem:
The study:
http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race...
The liberal viewpoint:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...
The conservative viewpoint:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/28473/nyt-claims-groundbreaki...
The counter arguments logic is hard to ignore. The answer is probably somewhere in the middle.
This sounds like a very big statement and probably something that can be a long post in itself. Would you be able to expound on that?
The American right, on the other hand, contends that providing social support to the poor and disenfranchised creates a "victim mentality" and a dependency on the system for advancement. They often accuse the American left of trying to make the United States into a communist nation akin to the Soviet Union and tend to favor the maximization of non-government power as much as possible. In practice, this manifests itself as a sort of "hyper-capitalism" where the American right grants tax breaks to the rich and large corporations in the name of both economic freedom and as a reward for their success in the free market.
It is very hard to reconcile the two perspectives.
EDIT: And just to add my own view here for clarity - I think both the left and right make salient points. The left is correct that there is no equality of opportunity without adjusting for the complexities of other aspects of life and financial constraints of a poor individual's starting position. I think the right is correct that a victim mentality is extremely dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. I think there is a centrist position to be held that works for everyone, but both sides despise centrists, so I am hated every time I talk about politics.
This can't go understated. Life is hard and often tragic. Everyone will be a victim of injustice, often grave injustice, at one point in their lives or another. The worst thing a culture can do is demotivate folks to face their tragedies because something about their personal identity (race, gender, geography, religion, etc) made it impossible to overcome.
You can't expect there to be more workers if there's no applicants. There are no applicants because there is a severe lack of Black people (among other groups) represented in Engineering/STEM degree programs. That stems from a lack of good public school education.
But like you said, it generates more clicks-per-article to blame the Big Bad Tech Companies for not being diverse enough, when really we as a national don't honestly want to see marginalized groups succeed. Americans operate by and large on a zero-sum assumption. Many believe that if one group of people succeeds, it somehow will undermine their own success.