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# Why Silicon Valley’s Asian Americans Still Feel Like a Minority
- URL: https://werd.io/why-silicon-valleys-asian-americans-still-feel-like-a-minority/
- Published: 2021-08-06T15:52:13.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-06T15:52:13.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"On her way out she asked her likely successor, a White man, if he needed help navigating the company. She says he told her, “I don’t really need to prepare that hard—the manager has my back.” \[Bo\] Ren was floored. She’d spent more than 100 hours preparing for the same interviews so she could prove she deserved the spot. Being White, she says, is “like having a skip pass at Disney World. I realized there is a bamboo ceiling, and I’d have to work 100 times harder.”"

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