This is a very, very good thread.
https://twitter.com/csilverandgold/status/1374813691946864660
It also reminds me of this incident with my friend, which is honestly one of the things that has affected me most in my life. At some point shouldn't you just get to be yourself and still get important things?
https://twitter.com/tznkai/status/1281238294932709386?s=20
One of the hardest things you can do is change an up-till-now successful course. It's the common thread that makes relationships, businesses, and sports team fail. And of course, its what makes people fail.
https://twitter.com/csilverandgold/status/1374814505671270403?s=20
A culture is in many ways a mere accumulation of habits and those habits were accumulated to get along and succeed in the group you were a part of and the material circumstances you all shared! If you grow up in one culture and have to assimilate into another, that's hard!
My parents did it very well which in turn made it much easier for me. It came at very real physical, fiscal and psychological costs. Tremendous resources were spent just so well meaning white friends could make fun of me for being whiter than them.
Ironically, one of them was the same friend up top. I don't think he remembers the incident, but I sure do.
Yeah, there's a lot of talk about the so-called "soft skills" being actually much harder to hire for in, e.g., tech than the actual job skills. And here we're mostly talking about awkward white people hiring other awkward white people.
https://twitter.com/csilverandgold/status/1374824322750164999?s=20
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