"the only Asian I know"

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Sun Jul 21 19:13:56 PDT 2002



> At 10:26 AM 07/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >The only Asian she knows? She's a 52-year-old leftist intellectual
> >who lives in New York City. How could she not know any other Asians?
> >Is my conception of the left intellectual scene here completely off,
> >or are there just not many Asians around?

joanna bujes:
> Came back recently from a week in New York City and I can't say that I
> remember seeing any Asians. Lots of folks from Africa, Carribbean, Latin
> America, but, I think, most Asians are to be found on the west coast. In
> California, where I live, there are tons. So, perhaps, it's just
> demographics.

At my (computer programming) work in the New York City area in the last few years, I'd say about a third of my colleagues have been of Asian descent. A few years ago I was in a large meeting on important technical issues, 25 people or so, and I was the only person there of White-man appearance, unless you count one fairly pale Arab. The was one other native American there, a Black woman. All the rest were sharpies from China, India, Taiwan, and like that. I felt proud to have made the grade, but anxious about the prospects of my race.

-- Gordon



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