Women Engineers on the Rampant Sexism of Silicon Valley
&gt; There are these tiny microaggressions that happen when people know you&#x27;re a person of colour, they wanna know your origin, [...]<p>I ask white males such questions, and have been asked such questions as a white male. In environments where a significant fraction of the people do not come from there, asking where you come from is a normal ice breaker and opening to get to know someone.<p>If I avoid such questions when someone happens to not be white, will I be accused of racism? Someone could interpret that as me not wanting to get to know non-white people.