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Re:Scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market by DangerousPie on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:44AM (#16053056)
> I'm South Indian, I didn't grow up there, but I can vouch for the condescending tone of Snigdha (the author of this piece). It's very much like how a condescending North Indian talks about a South Indian. And she's the 'educated' North Indian here talking to an 'un-educated' one. The condescension is palpable, and present throughout the piece. I have not read her other 2 pieces, but they're on similar topics, and I expect a similar tone. I'm not sure if it is a reflection of her distaste for the people in these highly questionable occupations, or just sprinkles of editorial hate.

Maybe I just didn't pick up on it, but as someone who doesn't know anything about the background of the author (nor about Indian stereotypes) this article didn't seem condescending to me at all. Are you sure you're not just projecting your own stereotypes about North/South Indians onto the author here?

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Re:Scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market by tacomonstrous on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:09PM (#16053259)
I'm South Indian as well, and I didn't pick up on any condescension. If anything, the writer went out of her way to present the views of obvious scammers as fairly as she could.
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Re:Scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market by reallymental on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:43PM (#16053572)
My point was about the perceived superiority that some people have over the others, due to their geographical/cultural/religious biases.

I mentioned I was South Indian to emphasise my bias towards such a tone.

But as I have acknowledged in my above comments, I may have looked at the article through biased eyes, but I still think I'm right in my assumption about this author's tone.

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Re:Scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market by nonamechicken on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:37PM (#16053517)
Same here. I actually didn't understand why OP mentioned South India at all.
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Re:Scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market by reallymental on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:38PM (#16053529)
That may very well be the case.

I did try to go through the paragraphs again to see if I could get a better read on it, unfortunately I came out with the same conclusion.

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