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You'll find more African Americans and Latinos involved in nonprofits,city government (civil and non-civil service), entertainment, media, small business owners, real estate agents, and other entrepreneurial pursuits (due to workplace discrimination).
It isn't always workplace discrimination.
What seems to get many people all riled up is that the majority of us (at least many of black folks) are not genuinely interested in IT, accounting, physics, marine biology, etc. We are driven by our interests and what we can do best. The "human worth based solely on highly intellectual fields" crowd dislikes this.
I noticed that as well when living in Chicago. The financial district outside of government offices are overwhelmingly White.
Correct. I have worked at about 5 different companies here in Chicago, large ones, and it's so overwhelmingly white. But then you go to a Subway or Starbucks, and those are the only places where you see the inverse. 80% of the office where I work is white, yet, the Starbucks, 7-11, and Cafe we have in our building, all the workers there are overwhelmingly minorities.
Correct. I have worked at about 5 different companies here in Chicago, large ones, and it's so overwhelmingly white. But then you go to a Subway or Starbucks, and those are the only places where you see the inverse. 80% of the office where I work is white, yet, the Starbucks, 7-11, and Cafe we have in our building, all the workers there are overwhelmingly minorities.
I worked for a very large tech company in The Loop when I lived in Chicago and my office was extremely diverse. Maybe it's not the norm for certain businesses but it's more than possible. Ultimately maybe it depends on the company. My company was a large multi national corporation who had no issues hiring people from wherever. Just off the top of my head, I had coworkers at my office in Chicago from South Korea, China, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Poland, Italy, Ghana, Jamaica, Malaysia, Lebanon, Australia, England, Pakistan, India, Philippines, etc. It is actually from a country representation just as diverse as my current company in NYC, but the only difference is that in NYC the foreign born percentage in the office is higher. However, a good 75% of those people are from India. From a racial perspective we were fairly split evenly although swaying more to the Asian side of things.
This disparity is pretty much a vicious cycle given the legacy of segregation in this country because parents who can afford housing in a school district that effectively prepares their kids to earn the test scores needed to get into a good 4 year college and earn professional middle class jobs are largely already in that socioeconomic class in the first place.
I worked for a very large tech company in The Loop when I lived in Chicago and my office was extremely diverse. Maybe it's not the norm for certain businesses but it's more than possible. Ultimately maybe it depends on the company. My company was a large multi national corporation who had no issues hiring people from wherever. Just off the top of my head, I had coworkers at my office in Chicago from South Korea, China, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Poland, Italy, Ghana, Jamaica, Malaysia, Lebanon, Australia, England, Pakistan, India, Philippines, etc. It is actually from a country representation just as diverse as my current company in NYC, but the only difference is that in NYC the foreign born percentage in the office is higher. However, a good 75% of those people are from India. From a racial perspective we were fairly split evenly although swaying more to the Asian side of things.
A lot of tech companies sponsor workers from other countries on H-1B visas so the degree of diversity within their ranks isn't that surprising. This is also true to a large extent in the medical industry.
Miami - 57.3%
Los Angeles - 65.1%
San Francisco - 68.3%
Atlanta - 68.6%
New York - 69.8%
Houston - 71.1%
Washington - 71.4%
Dallas - 74.1%
Chicago - 75.1%
Seattle - 79.8%
Philadelphia - 81.5%
Boston - 84.0%
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