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Google is setting caps on white and Asian students for a prestigious fellowship
- sn0w_crash 4y agoYeah this stuff will eventually meet its legal demise. “You have too many Asians” isn’t gonna fly.
- tarakat 4y agoGoogle's 2022 US workforce is 48.3% white [1]. The US is 57% white [2]. Why is Google setting caps on an already underrepresented group? [1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/about.google/en//belonging/diversity-annual-report/2022/static/pdfs/google_2022_diversity_annual_report.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/about.google/en//... page 31 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
- codefreeordie 4y agoSince Google's goal is not to have a workforce that mirrors the population from which it is drawn, it makes sense that they are acting in a manner that would prevent it from having that workforce.