It is true when an organization struggles to fill roles they are merely professing to the fact that their biases and discrimination are holding them back from determining the right candidate for the job. Increasingly, recruitment agencies are removing candidate background information such as name, address, and such from resumes to emphasize the fact that it is really the content of work that matches the job not what race, gender, or background someone is. In many instances, candidates even change their names to fit in with the employer ideals and stand a better chance for an interview. One only has to look at the people within any given organization on linkedin to get the eagle eye view of diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. In fact, an organization that rejects an asian or black for a technical role may in fact do it because most of the people that work there are white and this can be easily seen on the types of people that work there and their backgrounds. In many occasions employers may scrutinize on candidates if they are non-white especially on their education backgrounds. On other instances it is merely a case of utter racism that comes into play. Roles like natural language processing and computational linguistics are often seen as roles for white individuals especially as the employer assumes that non-whites may not know how to write and speak english. Such baseless biases are rampant in the IT industry across the sectors. Some recruiters just don't like working with non-whites. Others look at all muslims as terrorists so avoid hiring them altogether, while blacks may be seen as difficult or challenging to interact with in the workplace. All these biases are holding back the asian and black communities from jobs and quality education which may be the point all along. The lesser jobs they have and the lower standard of education they have means they can be kept in control and monitored in lower paying jobs where they are not able to hold authority, influence others, and make significant impactful decisions for society at large. This is also a mere sense of distrust and fear of the non-whites as well the need to maintain the status quo. A typical aspect that one can see transpiring is when a white person gets caught being racist they immediately release an apology. But, what good is this apology anyway when it is made only because they got caught, not that their actions were wrong. They are still likely to hold the same views unless they get caught again for some other reason. Why is it always the non-white being attacked in society? It is bizarre that the majority of wealthy economic societies are in the west dictating the terms of global supply and demand. While the countries with the richest reserves of natural resources are in the east. Is it any wonder that for the last few decades west has always had a reason to target an attack on the east which in most cases was either due to oil or some other naturally abundant resource? There has never been a time in such a long time where the east targeted the west especially in form of greed for resources. This imbalance of power has had severe ramifications across the economic divide and something seriously has to be done to level the playing field. Two fundamental factors that could reduce the economic disparity in the east is to transfer more economic funding towards sustainability and educational efforts which in both short-term and long-term could prove a surefire way of increasing the global balance. The transformation could then be made visible through job creation, reduction of debt, support for the disadvantaged, better educational institutions, more startup innovation, accountability audits for corruption, and sheer economic development for the future. This will undoubtedly create a sustainable form of enrichment to the east without being hampered by the west. Sustainability and increased educational opportunities leads to both social, economic, and environmental improvements in multiple dimensions which eventually eclipses and influences complex fabric of societal systems.
