Google cancelled a talk on caste bias

Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by fartcannon on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:09AM (#31594372)

I don't know if the Indian caste thing should be considered obscure. There are 1.3 billion Indians. By number of people affected it might be one of the more important conversations in the world today.

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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by zen_1 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:17AM (#31594475)

I think discussions of "obscurity" are always relative to the audience in question, so while I highly doubt caste discussions would reasonably be considered obscure in India (or within the Indian diaspora), I (a non-Indian) had certainly never heard of casteism abroad until I saw submissions on HN discussing it at Cisco.

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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by PhillyG on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:50AM (#31594880)

Agreed. "Region specific" might be a better term for what the commenter intended

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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by np_tedious on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:13AM (#31594420)

It's "obscure" bc it is underappreciated in the US and probably most places outside of India

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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by ZeroGravitas on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:13AM (#31594430)

I intended 'obscure' in the 'not easily understood' (to outsiders) sense, but probably an unfortunate word choice as it also means 'unknown'.

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