Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
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Re: Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
#2They confront it by appointing brahmins to the top management.
Re: Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
#3They confront it by appointing brahmins to the top management.
This has been my observation as well.
Re: Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
#4They confront it by appointing brahmins to the top management.
I think I've seen this. People were careless and made a high caste a feature lead and instead of working with our team, she ended up stealing one low caste from his assigned work and bossing him around and micromanaging him the entire time to work exclusively on her feature, in a way that wasn't very friendly. He was, otherwise, a decent employee who was patient, attentive and thorough. It didn't seem appropriate to allow that to happen, in my view.
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#5When you find a southeast Asian person talking about "neighborhood" or "neighbors", e.g. "he's from my neighborhood", "they're from a neighborhood over", understand that these are nearly always thinly veiled references to caste (that, or they merely serve as proxies to talk about caste in a socially acceptable manner). You will almost never, ever, hear your everyday person talk about caste.
Re: Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
#6When you find a southeast Asian person talking about "neighborhood" or "neighbors", e.g. "he's from my neighborhood", "they're from a neighborhood over", understand that these are nearly always thinly veiled references to caste (that, or they merely serve as proxies to talk about caste in a socially acceptable manner). You will almost never, ever, hear your everyday person talk about caste.
I'm South Asian, have lived in the US for over 15 years, and don't know wtf you're talking about. Neighborhood doesn't ever mean caste. The reason you never hear people talking about caste is because they don't.
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#7Are they actually confronting the problem or merely assaying an appearance of an attempt?
Re: Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
#8When you find a southeast Asian person talking about "neighborhood" or "neighbors", e.g. "he's from my neighborhood", "they're from a neighborhood over", understand that these are nearly always thinly veiled references to caste (that, or they merely serve as proxies to talk about caste in a socially acceptable manner). You will almost never, ever, hear your everyday person talk about caste.
I'm South Asian, have lived in the US for over 15 years, and don't know wtf you're talking about. Neighborhood doesn't ever mean caste. The reason you never hear people talking about caste is because they don't.
Another South Asian here, you're 100% correct. I can't even imagine what the parent poster is talking about, even twisted 100 ways I've never heard someone imply caste like that.
Re: Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
#9When you find a southeast Asian person talking about "neighborhood" or "neighbors", e.g. "he's from my neighborhood", "they're from a neighborhood over", understand that these are nearly always thinly veiled references to caste (that, or they merely serve as proxies to talk about caste in a socially acceptable manner). You will almost never, ever, hear your everyday person talk about caste.
I have never heard this either in my time around Nepali and Indian coworkers.
Re: Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
#10Long overdue. Those who are most offended by a light being shed on this practice are often those who have benefited from it the most.
For many (the 98% who are not the correct caste), caste is a sin that they cannot be freed of.
This has been well being entrenched in place for over 20-25 years. It can be found at any large tech company not just in SV, but beyond too.
Children are destined to be treated as less as if they had control of which families they were born into.