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... and didn't the US Senate recently got rid of its one and only African-American member by cleverly have him elected to the Presidency?

Snark, I know; but still...

Somebody said (around here, but I don't remember who or where) that the main reason there's no <insert European country here> Obama is that he/she wasn't born yet in 1961.

Otherwise, agree with your remark: I see more and more women and minorities in IT and engineering positions, which is expected when looking at the demographics.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 05:02:30 PM EST
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http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N56/women.html is about the declining population of women in computer science...
by asdf on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 10:45:39 PM EST
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CS != IT, by a huge margin. CS is science. IT is (unfortunately) part engineering and mostly superstition.

j/k

Anyway, I agree, I don't see more women. More minorities; definitely, but not more women.

A 'centrist' is someone who's neither on the left, nor on the left.

by nicta (nico&#65312;altiva&#8228;fr) on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 03:06:00 AM EST
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Actually, in France it seems to me many of the "minorities" are recent immigrants, who came to France for university or work, rather than descendants of immigrants.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 03:43:38 AM EST
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Yes, that's also my (empirical) observation.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
by Bernard on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 03:09:58 PM EST
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