Ethnicity Bias at Work: Due to Family Expectations, Ethnic Minorities are Twice as Likely to Lie About Their Career Choices

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1. > Four in five Black (82%) and Arab (80%) workers feel they must ‘work harder’ compared to their White British colleagues in the same role

   I never like these kind of statements.

   I personally feel my workload is tougher than my co-workers, but I know deep down that probably isn’t the case.

2. Not surprised. My white parent used to push the “do whatever you want to do” while my ethnic minority parent used to drive home the importance of work ethic and success all my life.

3. Hardly news here, even my Asian schoolmates used to joke about their options ‘doctor/lawyer/dentist’.

   Wording of the whole thing just seems a little off. Can’t pinpoint why.

4. Interesting data on perceptions of careers, but it is very frustrating that they don’t provide any link to the full results.

   * Some of those ‘ethnic minorities said…’ sections don’t provide clear comparisons to white respondents
   * I’d like to know the sample sizes for each group. In typical UK demographics the sizes for Black and Arab might be unreasonably small to use.
   * Where was the data collected, and how? If this was an online survey passed around Samsung’s intranet there’d be a big variation from a street or phone survey, or one put up on mechanical turk.

5. I guess it has nothing to do with the fact that the newspapers are constantly reminding them that they are different, by publishing vague ‘surveys’ to prove how shit they have it.

   It sometimes seems to me like the only people who are still concerned with skin colour are the media and politicians. The rest of us are just too cold and tired to give a fuck.