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A comment on Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system. Parent comment
Surname change was to avoid revealing caste. No appropriation of "lower caste" to get favorable quota.
I have no evidentiary way to conclude if change ended up helping me or not. I just never had to face caste based discrimination.
I shared the experience, so folks on this forums come out knowing more than what is typically seen in media.
No rhetoric. There is no denying, that problem is real.
The problem of people from dominant castes facing discrimination on the basis of their surnames is wholly imaginary.
Surname change was to avoid revealing caste. No appropriation of "lower caste" to get favorable quota.
I have no evidentiary way to conclude if change ended up helping me or not. I just never had to face caste based discrimination.
I shared the experience, so folks on this forums come out knowing more than what is typically seen in media.
No rhetoric. There is no denying, that problem is real.