How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley

Racism? In Silicon Valley?

This never made sense to me. If Donald Trump is locked up in a Chinese jail and powerless, he's no longer racist? A KKK member surrounded by a group of armed black police officers is not racist?

Man, this is really hard to stomach as a first generation Indian-American. I'm American, but my parents are distinctly not; the ideas of caste discrimination certainly come up often (we're Brahmin, FWIW, so you might imagine in what context these ideas come up).

One hopeful thought I can add is that I've never once talked to a American-born Indian-American about caste, except to ridicule it as a horrific system of discrimination. There's lots of Indian-born American citizens, which might contribute to the issue; I hope the institution of caste completely vanishes in America as our ethnic group assimilates into broader American society over the next few generations.

This is probably a reflection of the recent Cisco scumbaggery committed by two castist idiots that discriminated a fellow employee who was allegedly reporting to them.

On the other hand, as an Indian myself, I've seen some really backward idiots spread all over America that try to reinforce the notion of caste and propagate that idea to others. Most of them are really uncivilized with narrow and closed minds. I know for one that the idea of "caste" makes no sense, at least not anymore. In India there is still a lot of mess and trouble that happens because of it, which only pulls the country back in terms of development, but when people, after setting foot in America which is a much forward country still do not get enlightened, it is beyond me.

I personally have taken a pledge to spread the word against "caste" and Caste discrimination here. I was able to change a few minds among my friends which I'm happy about. To anyone reading this, please enlighten yourself and help others.

Exactly. Some people are trying hard to change the definition of racism so that when people A harm or discriminat people B on a racial basis it’s supposedly not racist for some given A and some given B.