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A comment on H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads. Parent comment

Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by petilon on Saturday January 26, 2019 @10:58AM (#19006796)
>There is a saying, that if an Indian becomes a manager, soon all his department becomes Indians, which really stands out among all other races.

That's nonsense. Indians aren't one race. Indians are multiracial themselves. There are dark-skinned Indians that are mistaken for African American, and there are light skinned Indians that are mistaken for Italian Americans. The states of India are like countries of Europe in that each state has its own language: Gujarathi, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali etc.

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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by jessaustin on Saturday January 26, 2019 @11:19AM (#19006893)
How do your observations refute the original proposition? Race is a problematic concept, but that doesn't mean it can mean anything you want it to mean. If someone had made a similar observation e.g. about American managers in Europe, would an objection to the effect that "America has multiple races!" mean anything?
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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by petilon on Saturday January 26, 2019 @11:38AM (#19006988)
I corrected a factual error, but I am not refuting or supporting the rest of your claims. But I will note that you are complaining about people who you perceive to be your competitors. You inherently have diminished credibility because of that.
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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by jessaustin on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:07PM (#19014051)
Dude who are you talking to? What claims have I made? I've just observed that your use of the word "race" is quite different than its normal meaning.
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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by rhizome on Saturday January 26, 2019 @12:51PM (#19007395)
>That's nonsense. Indians aren't one race. Indians are multiracial themselves.

Race doesn't exist, there is only skin color, ethnicity, haplogroups, nationality, language, subculture, etc.

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