[icegreentea]

Sure. It's just xenophobic.

And since the OP's culture was clearly a white man's culture - a culture that has been relatively slow to accommodate others, in many ways its still a racist, sexist vision - granted one with unusual bluriness at the edges.

[aianus]

You've got to be kidding. The only white people in my CS classes were immigrants from Israel and the Soviet bloc.

White people (in Canada, at least) flock to management consulting, investment banking, law, and medicine and look down on software developers.