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Post by banshiram123 »

911e wrote: post #42

This caste problems continue in the US, instead of leaving behind such ridiculous biases it becomes a part of an US company… https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/googles-caste-bias-pr...

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Re: My Caste

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Post by User23 »

What’s the hypothesized reason why American universities are evidently discriminating against OBC persons? To my knowledge most Americans know little to nothing about caste, few of us can reliably tell caste from name, and even if we could we wouldn’t care.

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Post by hef19898 »

curtisblaine wrote: post #20
alehlopeh wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What could vegetarian by birth possibly mean

I guess born in a vegetarian family, educated as a vegetarian.

Can a born vegetarian be identified by measuring, I don't know, the diameter of nostrils or distance between nose tip and chin? And if so, do born vegans differ from those measurwmemts? And do they get bonus points?

Sarcasm aside, this whole caste system is easily a contentender for the worst form discrimination and, yes, racism is existence today.

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Post by skavi »

thriftwy wrote: post #34

So my wife is from a shipyard town in Russia which refitted that air carrier ship for Indian navy. So at times they had a lot of Indian citizens in town. I remember some of her acquaintances, working at child care, discovered that some of Indian kids shun other ones based on Caste, and promptly made them all do kids' dances holding hands with each other.

Just curious; why were there children at all? Surely they weren’t on the carrier?

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Post by hef19898 »

someguydave wrote: post #51
cleandreams wrote: post #8

I had a student in my class who wrote about being from a "low caste" background. So when a friend hosted a woman from India on her podcast who said there was so caste discrimination in India I spoke up about this. The podcast guest said that the fact that anyone in the west mentioned caste discrimination, even within western tech companies, was an act of racism against Indian culture and reflected colonial judgements…

To be woke is to be against colorblind treatment and to be for discrimination

Really? How so?

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Post by turbohz »

username135 wrote: post #56
soligern wrote: post #53

Honestly I think this is majorly overblown. Having lived in both India and the US and being in my late 30s, I’ve never seen caste come up in any conversation even once. That’s tens of thousands of Indian people at the very least. Feels like this person is hyper aware of his caste and seems to take steps bordering on paranoia.

There we have it. It's a non issue so let's move on folks.

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soligern wrote: post #53

Honestly I think this is majorly overblown. Having lived in both India and the US and being in my late 30s, I’ve never seen caste come up in any conversation even once. That’s tens of thousands of Indian people at the very least. Feels like this person is hyper aware of his caste and seems to take steps bordering on paranoia.

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