It could be possible they are projecting the home grown issue of India onto America. Racism is traumatic, and can lead to ptsd. If you dealt with it, you will amplify it wherever you even think it could exist, eg ‘I already know what you think about me’ as an internal thought. Imagine if your whole life you were looked at as X, you will feel like X even if you are in an environment that may not be doing this to you.

Severe defensiveness. Not trying to undermine testimony, but life is a spectrum. On the spectrum of all testimonies, there is without a doubt corroborating testimonies that are the result of trauma.

I’ll give an example. I’m an alcoholic. There are times my shame is so great that even in random stores where I go to buy some beer, I can feel eyes on me as if the whole world knows I’m an alcoholic. It’s an intense feeling of guilt and shame. Other examples of this are imposter syndrome arising from being doubted. If you ever been doubted in any meaningful way, you can palpably feel the doubt on your skin in new situations - all from past trauma. But in reality, no one may be doubting you in these new situations.

It wasn't clear that they were all living in the US and working for US companies.

I would not be surprised if a majority of them were based in India, or based in the US but working for an Indian company (similar to Chinese companies in Italy, who set up factories with exclusively Chinese workers to make leather purses that can be stamped with "Made in Italy").