Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest tech companies

Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by skruban on Saturday October 31, 2020 @01:20PM (#24953272)

As a Singaporean Indian (Tamil) I've always found caste identity talk in the US/India very intriguing. I've never heard caste mentioned here in SG; in fact I don't even know what caste I'm from. How would one identify your caste? Can't those from a lower caste just claim that they are brahmins?

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Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by sbmthakur on Saturday October 31, 2020 @01:48PM (#24953574)

> How would one identify your caste?

That can be generally done by checking what traditions one follows. For example, Brahmins are supposed to be involved with all priestly work and a strict Brahmin does not eat meat and wears Janeu[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanayana

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Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by fmajid on Sunday November 01, 2020 @04:10AM (#24958213)

As Dravidians your people have been on the receiving end of caste imposed by Aryans, so unless you were Brahmins they did not have the same incentives to preserve the system once they left the suffocating environment of India.

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Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by nodelessness on Saturday October 31, 2020 @01:58PM (#24953684)

Also Tamil. Your cousin's brother in law's sister's mother in law will attest to your caste whatever that caste is.

They check for who you are related to and know knows you who belongs to X caste.

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