[Cal24906]

Why would you care what color your computer programer is? Wouldn’t you be more concerned with how competent they are? Why is it that we expect that every profession should reflect the racial, ethnic, and sexual diversity of the general population? Could it be that some groups just gravitate to certain jobs and avoid others? This is not a politically correct thought because it suggests that there might be differences in attitude, skills, and desires among the various groups. Politically correct thinking tells us that we are all the same and that the only reason there is not diversity is because of illegal discrimination. I beg to differ. Some ethnic,racial, or gender groups just seem to have an affinity for certain jobs. I look around my job and I see that half the mechanical engineers are of Asian decent and nearly all of the microwave engineers are Asian. I don’t think that our executives stacked the deck against white engineers (or anyone else). They just hired the best available talent and ended up with a mostly Asian workforce. I imagine the same thing happened in the NBA. The team owners wanted to win and they hired the best players and over the years the league became mostly black. they did not discrimate against white players, they discriminated in favor of skilled players. Maybe the reason that there are not more black programmers is that not very many black people want to be programmers.

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Name : Cal24906, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 45, City : Lakewood, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : engineer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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