Industry needs more minority programmers...

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Roughly 80 percent of video game programmers are white, according to preliminary results of an International Game Developement Association survey. About four percent of designers are hispanic, and less than three percent are black.

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The survey totally dismisses the Asian community. I guess companies like Capcom, Namco, Nintendo and Sega are comprised of mostly white programmers. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

This never happens. They move to the big money neighborhoods and never look back. Worse yet, many have no sympathy for people of their minority living in poverity. Those types of people end up being bitter because of years of taking shit for working hard instead of going out to play basketball and listen to rap with the guys. They had to work really hard to get where the are, and they are pissed at the people they grew up with for how lonely they made he/she feel while striving for something better.

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I don't believe this for one second, unless you're talking about business professionals. How often have you heard about sports stars like Emmit Smith or Eddie George giving back to thier communities?

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

If Im a smart black kid in the ghetto, chances are one of my parents is gone or in jail. My school is a slum and the teachers cant do their job properly. Which means that my SAT scores probably wont be as good as the successful white people, which means I cant get into the top schools. And even if I did, my parent couldnt afford to send me there, anyway. There were 800 black students at UCLA, out of 32,000 undergrads. Are you going to try to tell me there's only 800 black students in the entire state of California smart enough to go to UCLA?

Look at all the statistics... SAT scores are lower in poor neighborhoods, test scores arent as good, college admission rates are lower, etc.

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A local television news broadcast in Dallas, did a report on unfair opportunities for students. They did a peice on a girl that went to a school and had great test scores. She still didn't qualify for the University of Texas, because there were too many people qualified to attend the college. Meanwhile a girl that went to a lesser school and had lower grades qualfied, because she was a minority.

I dated an Hispanic girl about 8 years ago. Her sister had solid grades and was offered a full scholarship at Harvard, because she was a minority.

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Originally Posted by gamevet

I dated an Hispanic girl about 8 years ago. Her sister had solid grades and was offered a full scholarship at Harvard, because she was a minority.

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Harvard does need-based financial aid...

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Originally Posted by gamevet

I don't believe this for one second, unless you're talking about business professionals. How often have you heard about sports stars like Emmit Smith or Eddie George giving back to thier communities?
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People who must have a positive public opinion of them to continue to make money, do not count. And besides, they don't have anything to be bitter about. You can be one of the guys and become a star athleate. Playing BBall is cool, hip, and "black." No one ever got treated like an outcast for being an athleate.

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

People who must have a positive public opinion of them to continue to make money, do not count. And besides, they don't have anything to be bitter about. You can be one of the guys and become a star athleate. Playing BBall is cool, hip, and "black." No one ever got treated like an outcast for being an athleate.

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Those that did make it out, usually said that they did so because of places like the Boys and Girls club. They don't do this shit to impress you or me. They do so, because they were once a part of these broken down communities.

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Originally Posted by gamevet

Those that did make it out, usually said that they did so because of places like the Boys and Girls club. They don't do this shit to impress you or me. They do so, because they were once a part of these broken down communities.

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Ok, whatever, if you want to believe that, cool. I'm not going to get into a hypothetical argument with you over the motives of the few thousand different proathletes this country has. If you want to believe that everyone from the streets who plays for the big leagues does so because he has roses coming out his ass, fine, whatever.

Still, athletes have nothing to do with this argument. That is a dream job, only a few people get to be star athletes. It is about as silly to use that as a counter argument as me using astronauts or “rock god.”s It's the exception, not the rule.