Before we examine the origin of the reverse diversity problem, let’s define a few terms:
- American Elites. The powerful, the rich, the establishment who control policies, corporations and institutions.
- American Majority. The majority of American population who are not or not yet elites.
- Model minority. Asian Americans were characterized as a “model” minorityamid the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
It all started with Outsourcing which as a term originated no later than 1981 and it took four decades in the making:
- American elites outsourced manufacturing to China.
- American elites outsourced IT to India.
- American majority value finance and management jobs over manufacturing, IT and STEM.
- American model minorities occupy domestic IT and STEM positions.
- All-model-minority teams emerge across IT and STEM industries.
