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Re:How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon... by majjgepolja on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:09AM (#26435963)
Most of them don't even ask your caste these days. I do not know where you're from. And there's even caste based affirmative action.
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Re:How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon... by notacoward on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:01AM (#26437157)
My understanding is that many people don't directly ask about caste any more, but they'll actively try to figure it out based on your last name or "innocuous" questions about where you're from, what schools you went to, dietary habits, etc. Is that not so?
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Re:How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon... by higerordermap on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:22PM (#26443941)
Maybe in previous generation. Millennials/Gen Z doesn't care much.
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Re:How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon... by bluGill on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:36AM (#26436232)
I understand it isn't legal to ask about caste in many circumstances. However it isn't hard to guess correctly in most cases, so that doesn't matter.

I'm not from India though, so I'm just repeating what I've heard about a system that makes no sense to me.

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Re:How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon... by WillSlim95 on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:57AM (#26437115)
Yeah that is all on paper. In practice it is very different
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