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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

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It's funny how this is NEVER mentioned in the media.

I guess BLM is "so hot" right now (but to be honest this caste issue was never mention even before BLM also).

Perhaps this is because in the West this concepts of casts within society is completely foreign to us.

So for a Westerner this does not create any acute psychological response if someone says "I'm a Dalit". A westerner would be like "huh, yeah ok man, I have no idea what that is."

So in the mind of a westerner this "he's a Dalit" doesn't create any associations by which he would judge this person because the concept of "casts" is so foreign to us.

This is also why we ignore it + westerners are not affected by this system as it applies only to Indians.

I did hear stories though that the upper cast Indians in a managerial position onyl hire other upper cast Indiands and keep whites because "they know they perform". But upper cast indians still severely favourite their own vs whites for example.

I guess you could say that their "you're a Dalit gtfo" is the same as someone in the west says "you're black gtfo".

Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians

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> It may seem bizarre that the caste system, a centuries-old system that organises and stratifies human society, continues to play a heavy role in deciding which Indians prosper and which don't within a space many consider to be an uber-meritocracy -- the US tech landscape.

Well for I'm not surprised, and further I doubt anybody in it considers it an "uber-meritocracy", it really is much more perverse.

Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians

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Cisco HR said "caste discrimination was not unlawful".

Doesn't California's Unruh Civil Rights Act prohibit employment discrimination in a businesses based on ancestry, especially given the CA Supreme Court's repeated determination that the list of protected classes should be interpreted broadly? So why wouldn't caste discrimination be illegal under that law?

Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians

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Cisco HR said "caste discrimination was not unlawful". Doesn't California's Unruh Civil Rights Act prohibit employment discrimination in a businesses based on ancestry, especially given the CA Supreme Court's repeated determination that the list of protected classes should be interpreted broadly? So why wouldn't caste discrimination be illegal under that law?

Probably because HR/legal didn't want to make a fuss and interpreted narrowly for that reason.

Re: Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians

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It's funny how this is NEVER mentioned in the media. I guess BLM is "so hot" right now (but to be honest this caste issue was never mention even before BLM also). Perhaps this is because in the West this concepts of casts within society is completely foreign to us. So for a Westerner this does not create any acute psychological response if someone says "I'm a Dalit". A westerner would be like "huh, yeah ok man, I hav…

It can't be anything to do with the fact that the US is ~0.05% Dalit and 13% black.
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