Re:Ask HN: How to Self-Promote at Work?
by mytailorisrich on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:41AM
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In the UK, "Asian" tends to imply "South Asian". Indians are quite good at playing the game and self-promotion. On the other hand East Asians less so. This is of course an over-generalization but I do think it holds some truth and that has to do with cultural differences, IMHO.
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Re:Ask HN: How to Self-Promote at Work?
by shrikant on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:21AM
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Timid, un-self-promoting Indian-in-the-UK here.
Yours is a broad generalisation, and one that has hurt my career in the past because of senior people who inevitably follow this chain of reasoning: "Indians are good at playing the self-promotion game --> shrikant is Indian, and he's not bigging himself up enough --> he must not be good enough --> meh, average rating, let's move on to the next person".
This hasn't happened everywhere, so I suppose it is down to organisational culture as well.
But also I guess my point is: even if broad generalisations hold "true", it's not cool to apply it to an individual.