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It's so weird how US mass media refuses to name/identify some offenders but identifies some offenders by their identities. If some black youth engage in gunplay the headlines read "5 Chicagoans gunned down", if some Chinese scam an Apple store it's "Oregon Students defraud apple store", if a Somali joins ISIS the story goes to press as "Minneapolis Man joins ISIS" or "Another person from Rep. Omar's district joins IS…
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So you're fine as long as racism is only directed towards races other than your own?
Chinese is a nationality or citizenship status. If the focus were reporting han chinese then it would enter the territory of racism.
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When worked as technical support we had some large banks as customers who insisted everyone who worked their cases be US citizens. We worked with some semi sensitive technical data, but nothing directly banking related. A few banks required drug and credit checks (the credit checks were just dumb). Amusingly they were happy to hire on connected people in less friendly nations when operating overseas. I think the citi…
> credit checks (the credit checks were just dumb). Credit checks are extremely smart. People who are financially vulnerable are high risk.
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> credit checks (the credit checks were just dumb). Credit checks are extremely smart. People who are financially vulnerable are high risk.
A credit check is basically relevant to any job. If you can't be trusted to pay back your loans on time as promised how can you be trusted to do your job as promised?
Bad credit, can't get job... can't get job, can't improve credit...
Well considering this is the same country who interned 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent all due to hysteria.
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> credit checks (the credit checks were just dumb). Credit checks are extremely smart. People who are financially vulnerable are high risk.
A credit check is basically relevant to any job. If you can't be trusted to pay back your loans on time as promised how can you be trusted to do your job as promised?
When I was buying my house, I was building up and paying off ~$500 across 4 credit cards (one for Home Depot, one for Uber, etc.) I paid them down to $0 every month.
I'd consider that behavior to be financially smart. I got discounts of 5% on all those purchases because of the perks of the cards.
I was shocked by the score the bank had given me, since I do monitor my credit. They told me I had to stop using all those cards. I did, and my score went up 100 points instantly.
I wonder why the headline says 'Asian' instead of saying Chinese, since all three researchers were Chinese with ties to China. As an ethic Indian, I'm kinda offended when all Asians are just lumped together as I believe it promotes general racism and bias against anyone from that continent .
Funny you say that because in the US, Indians are not considered Asians in practice even though of course South Asia is, well in Asia. I have seen many people argue that Asians only mean East Asians and does not include South Asians. However, the official census lumps all Asians together.
E.g. https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/53636/online-phy...
Well considering this is the same country who interned 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent all due to hysteria.
It's so weird how US mass media refuses to name/identify some offenders but identifies some offenders by their identities. If some black youth engage in gunplay the headlines read "5 Chicagoans gunned down", if some Chinese scam an Apple store it's "Oregon Students defraud apple store", if a Somali joins ISIS the story goes to press as "Minneapolis Man joins ISIS" or "Another person from Rep. Omar's district joins IS…
Well considering this is the same country who interned 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent all due to hysteria.
Stop acting like something that happened nearly 80 years ago is relevant today. Did we go crazy and lock up every Muslim after 9-11? That was a different time, a great deal of progress has been made since then. Sometimes I think too much progress as we are unwilling to be tough against those who seek to do us harm.
We invaded a whole country (Afghanistan), sent many to places like Guantanamo Bay, and bombed them throughout Africa and the Middle East. What more do you want?