The Three Bay Areas (2017) • Hacker News Board

Re: The Three Bay Areas (2017)

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Post by zeckalpha » Wed, Aug 12, 2020, 2:36 AM UTC

usaar333 wrote: post #57

function_seven wrote: post #52

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Your refugee friends probably didn't fit this intro to bracket one: > You grew up in one of these five counties: Marin, Santa Clara, Orange, Loudoun or Westchester. You went to a private high school that cost $40,000 a year to attend, yet when you mention it, you emphasize that it “almost bankrupted your parents,” one of whom is an engineer, and the other of whom is a clinical psychologist who has written two best-se…

As it is satirical, it tends to narrowly bucket people. Bracket one broadly is intended to apply to many if not most upper middle class professionals, including ones who went to top public schools. Some just happen to enter the circle later in life (their 20s rather than at birth).

Those who enter later in life may not ever quite feel at home.

Re: The Three Bay Areas (2017)

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Post by danans » Wed, Aug 12, 2020, 4:32 AM UTC

haram_masala wrote: post #90

danans wrote: post #85

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Percentage of population that are immigrants, number of local elected officials and leaders who are immigrants or people of color, basically all the stats that index for this sort of thing. For an example drawn from another part of the country, look at the district in Iowa that repeatedly reelected Steve King (R) to Congress, renowned and avowed xenophobe and ethno-nationalist, until he became an embarrassment. What…

So basically, being an immigrant or a PoC precludes being a xenophobe or ethno-nationalist. That's what I thought.

Being an immigrant makes you much less likely to be a xenophobe, and being a POC in the US makes you much less likely to be an ethno-nationalist. The Bay Area has a high representation of both immigrants and POCs, so statistically lower representation of xenophobes and ethno-nationalists.

However, nothing precludes an individual of either or both of those groups from being xenophobes or ethno-nationalists. This isn't inconsistent. These aren't absolute categories, but rather categories of statistical likelihood. When you are talking about the entire population of a region - there are no absolutes, just likelihoods over large numbers.

Re: The Three Bay Areas (2017)

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Post by marviio » Wed, Aug 12, 2020, 11:03 AM UTC

GhettoChild wrote: post #75

whatshisface wrote: post #73

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3. Oil is not something that you can change in your own car unless you're ready to permanently ruin whatever concrete you do it on. Sounds like the author gets their car maintained with an app. ;)

Thats just not true at all. All that means is that you're slow and forget to move your oil pan from underneath your oil drain to underneath the filter. Then again I was raised by a single immigrant mom. I was taught to pinch pennies in ways many people cannot relate to.

Four Yorkshiremen.