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Re:California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on In... by dis-sys on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:42PM (#23799278)
shocking but still confused. When they practiced the indian caste system in the US, how would they interact with people not from india, e.g. people with US, EU, Vietnam, Korea etc background? Do they get treated as "high caste" or "low caste" people?
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Re:California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on In... by whatshisface on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:46PM (#23799291)
Caste is highly correlated to skin pigmentation, so in practice... this would be almost indistinguishable from regular old racism.
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Re:California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on In... by cjsaltlake on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:56AM (#23799629)
It's not at all highly correlated, and skin color certainly wouldn't trump real caste affiliation.
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Re:California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on In... by mirimir on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:10AM (#23799692)
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23799512 for a recent paper which reports that it is.
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Re:California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on In... by cjsaltlake on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:57AM (#23799633)
Additionally, there's north/south discrimination, with greater antipathy from southern Indians against northern Indians.
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