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Discussion on: The Unbearable Whiteness of Coding

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Mangor1no • Edited

IMO, races are NOT the problem when talking about jobs, specially programming.

Unlike others, programming can be both self taught and learnt at universities. The problem is, everyone can be a software engineer if they are willing to. Big corps always want to find best programmers (at my place we call them by a funny name: "coding machine") to record beautiful numbers on sales based on their KPIs. If you are black, or yellow, or white, or whatever you wanna be, you totally can be a programmer. There a thousands companies willing to pay them well with all kind of benefits.

The location where you work is also a reason why you don't usually see other races at work. I mean come on, I myself also an Asian, and I'm working for a software company in Vietnam. The chance to find a white programmer is pretty rare (at my workplace). In fact, after being a programmer from multiple companies, I only find 2-3 white colleague.

To summary, people skin color at work ain't a problem.