There are too many Asian bosses in Silicon Valley, says Trump’s Chief Strategist

In an interview, Steve Bannon, now the Chief Strategist of US President-elect Donald Trump, seemed critical of the prominence of Asians in the Silicon Valley as bosses. This came up after Bannon, who is 62, was interviewing Trump when he was a radio jockey.

During the interview, Trump said that students in top universities are going out to other countries after completing their education. He said they needed to create jobs and keep their talent in the country.

“We've gotta be able to keep great people in the country. We've gotta create, you know, job creators,” Trump said in the interview. He added that "we have to keep our talented people in this country."

Responding to this, Bannon, who was the interviewer, said, “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think...”, and then went on to say, “a country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

“He seemed to hint at the idea of a white nationalist identity with the phrase ‘civic society’,” said the US tech site The Verge.

According to a survey that conducted last year, a white person had around 149% better chances to be a CEO than an Asian man. It was also concluded in the study that the impact of race is 3.7 times more significant than gender as a negative factor in companies.

One-third of all employees in Silicon Valley are Asian; Asians are under one-fifth of management; and only 14 percent are CEOs.

Regardless of the prevailing conditions, some Indians have managed to rise to positions that are really significant.

Indians make up 15 percent of all Silicon Valley CEOs, and two of these are leading two of the biggest, most influential, and richest companies in the world today - Microsoft, and Google. Satya Nadella is the CEO of Microsoft and Google’s CEO is Sundar Pichai.
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