This article is almost a caricature of articles like itself. What makes this interesting to people? Is it because it's so over the top with bad tropes it becomes funny?
I guess it is because people often forget that there are downsides to diversity: You are importing foreign cultures that you do not understand and are legally/organisationally unprepared for. The article is interesting because it provides a contrast to the common refrain of "diversity good" and "other cultures provide benefits". There is often a lack of balance and nuance in reporting imho, and this kind of article p…
Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
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Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
#32Culture and social structures are very hard to change once they take hold...
Problem is that those who benefit from social structure does not want the change, and are working on keeping status quo.
Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
#33Which is... essentially even though one might say caste is abolished, you know having a higher (or equal) caste still has advantage and favoritism towards alike caste is cultivated (possibly unconsciously, but the story implies deliberately)
Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
#34It is not just the consequence of being wealthier, although that and politics play a role. Among Indians from similar income levels, that makes it unreserved castes people more likely to take up tech / medical sector.
Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
#35Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
#36The core issue in market heavy economies is that people with money make money and everyone else doesn't. Being smart and hard working and having poor parents means you will be poor. Being dumb and lazy with rich parents means you will be rich. Maybe with 3 or 4 full generations of nothing but hard work and luck you might make it up from working to middle class. Maybe. This is never really discussed directly. Only usi…
Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
#37The core issue in market heavy economies is that people with money make money and everyone else doesn't. Being smart and hard working and having poor parents means you will be poor. Being dumb and lazy with rich parents means you will be rich. Maybe with 3 or 4 full generations of nothing but hard work and luck you might make it up from working to middle class. Maybe. This is never really discussed directly. Only usi…
https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-intergenerat...
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-social-mobility-...
And on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility
India unfortunately fairs quite poorly on these metrics
Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
#38The core issue in market heavy economies is that people with money make money and everyone else doesn't. Being smart and hard working and having poor parents means you will be poor. Being dumb and lazy with rich parents means you will be rich. Maybe with 3 or 4 full generations of nothing but hard work and luck you might make it up from working to middle class. Maybe. This is never really discussed directly. Only usi…
The idea of "it takes a few generations" is also widely critiqued with respect to racial progress in the US: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/the-myt...
Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
#39This article appears to be about a current lawsuit. The claims that are being made are outrageous, but that is what is expected of a plaintiffs claims in this sort of lawsuit. I doubt I'll make many friends adding this in, but an uncomfortable statistical artefact of an affirmative action program is the candidates in that program are very likely going to have lower average competence than the rest of the cohort. That…
Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
#40How does one tactfully determine what percentage of a company is Indian?
If there were a source for the 90% figure, that would be a totally separate issue with different causes and different considerations.