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Re:Tech Jobs Lead to the Middle Class, But Not for the Masses by Buge on Monday May 20, 2019 @12:29AM (#19957525)
>Are you are Muslim ?

BurningFrog is not Muslim. BurningFrog was pointing out that religious difference between BurningFrog and BurningFrog's coworkers (muslim Pakistani software engineers).

>If I dropped you in the middle of Pakistan I am pretty sure you would have nothing in common with most people in Pakistan.

That's pretty much the point BurningFrog was making. BurningFrog has a lot of similarities with software engineers willing to move to California even if they're of different religions and nationalities. But BurningFrog was very different from "most people in" "[BurningFrog's] small European country". And BurningFrog is similarly very different from "most people in Pakistan".

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Re:Tech Jobs Lead to the Middle Class, But Not for the Masses by BurningFrog on Monday May 20, 2019 @10:38AM (#19960736)
Exactly.

To be fair, one reason I got along so well with people from every corner of the planet writing software in Silicon Valley was just that I had learned about strangers in the military.

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