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There may be pockets in India where caste still impacts your life (mostly poor, uneducated and backward villages), but in major cities where people are educated and modern, caste is not significant. More on that here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-n...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/big-techs-big-pro...
Pervasive in Tech as well. Well known in FAANG companies that upper castes promote other upper castes and squash anyone under them from a lower caste. Also actively hushed, see Google canceling a talk on their campus about this very issue after upper castes complained. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/big-techs-big-pro...
There may be pockets in India where caste still impacts your life (mostly poor, uneducated and backward villages), but in major cities where people are educated and modern, caste is not significant. More on that here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-n...
What I found surprising is that the genetic distance between Indian castes is rather large, comparable to the distance of a northern European to eg a greek person: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC311057/
It's best said that India is Europe in half the land area. Culturally (languages, writing scripts, music, food, dance, architecture, politics) and pheno/genotypically (skin colour, facial and body structure, mt/Y-chromosomal DNA). I struggle to find another single country with as long a history as India's, which is as diverse.
There may be pockets in India where caste still impacts your life (mostly poor, uneducated and backward villages), but in major cities where people are educated and modern, caste is not significant. More on that here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-n...
There may be pockets in India where caste still impacts your life (mostly poor, uneducated and backward villages), but in major cities where people are educated and modern, caste is not significant. More on that here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-n...
This just isn't correct. Not only is it still pervasive in India it actively impacts US Indian immigrants as well. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/big-techs-big-pro...
There may be pockets in India where caste still impacts your life (mostly poor, uneducated and backward villages), but in major cities where people are educated and modern, caste is not significant. More on that here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-n...
https://qz.com/apple-meta-and-google-must-fight-caste-discri...
This is a real problem that doesn't get as much attention as it ought to. Google canceled a planned talk about this earlier this year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/02/google-...
Pervasive in Tech as well. Well known in FAANG companies that upper castes promote other upper castes and squash anyone under them from a lower caste. Also actively hushed, see Google canceling a talk on their campus about this very issue after upper castes complained. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/big-techs-big-pro...
~2% of Indian expats in the US are low-caste, and most of those are not in tech. This is a manufactured controversy.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cisco-lawsuit/california-...
There may be pockets in India where caste still impacts your life (mostly poor, uneducated and backward villages), but in major cities where people are educated and modern, caste is not significant. More on that here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-n...
Wait - if that's the case, why is caste an issue at Oracle, up to the point where there's federal lawsuits? Are the Indian employees at that firm all from backwards villages?