This is bullshit. I've heard my international student and immigrant friends play this card very frequently. This is especially obvious when they're talking in a self deprecating way. And you know what? They might not be wrong, and that's okay.
The irony of what you're saying should also not be lost on you. You're claiming that you're discriminated against due to your status as a skilled-immigrant worker, but that nobody in your situation would claim this.
Also it seems like you think that women and African-Americans don't face discrimination in tech? I really have a hard time imagining people making this claim, especially with statistics like:
Men are employed in STEM occupations at about twice the rate of women with the same qualifications. [1]
The number of women graduating with computer science degrees has halved in the last 30 years. [2]
Women are treated as if they don't belong in the field, through sexism or dismissal. [3]
How many women do you see stuck in UI Dev? Have you talked to them? Guess what -- a lot of them hate UI but get stuck in the 'girly' part of CS, especially at the entry level. My fiancee, who graduated with me from a top 10 university with an emphasis in Algorithms and Modeling is now doing web UI... Well payed web UI, but still, definitely not the right fit for her skill set.
My African American friends in tech faced the same sort of discrimination -- the cultural barrier to entry we have in the tech field is pretty bonkers.
The irony of what you're saying should also not be lost on you. You're claiming that you're discriminated against due to your status as a skilled-immigrant worker, but that nobody in your situation would claim this.
Also it seems like you think that women and African-Americans don't face discrimination in tech? I really have a hard time imagining people making this claim, especially with statistics like: Men are employed in STEM occupations at about twice the rate of women with the same qualifications. [1] The number of women graduating with computer science degrees has halved in the last 30 years. [2] Women are treated as if they don't belong in the field, through sexism or dismissal. [3] How many women do you see stuck in UI Dev? Have you talked to them? Guess what -- a lot of them hate UI but get stuck in the 'girly' part of CS, especially at the entry level. My fiancee, who graduated with me from a top 10 university with an emphasis in Algorithms and Modeling is now doing web UI... Well payed web UI, but still, definitely not the right fit for her skill set.
My African American friends in tech faced the same sort of discrimination -- the cultural barrier to entry we have in the tech field is pretty bonkers.
1. https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/acs-24.pdf 2. http://readwrite.com/2014/09/02/women-in-computer-science-wh... 3. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/women-and-information-technol...