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Re:Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallo... by kelnos on Friday June 03, 2022 @08:16PM (#31615480)
It's a problem here because low-caste Indians do make it to the US, just in very small numbers compared to high-caste Indians. And if they still suffer discrimination, shouldn't we as a society try to fix that? Perhaps it's even more critical here, as the low-caste group is an even smaller minority here, and so you'd expect they have an even harder time standing up for themselves. Especially given that they're often here on H1-B visas (or similar), and making waves at work could get them fired and and forced to leave the country.

It's a hell of a deal with the devil they have to make: put up with the same discrimination they suffered at home, but without any kind of social support network, in exchange for the possibility getting a green card 10 or 15 or 20 years down the road and thus gaining some security residence-wise.

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Re:Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallo... by setr on Friday June 03, 2022 @09:39PM (#31615993)
> And if they still suffer discrimination, shouldn't we as a society try to fix that?

Sure, the US society should strive to eliminate caste-based discrimination occurring in the US.

But that it occurs in India does not mean that it’s been carried forward in the US.

A history of discrimination leading to a disadvantaged position today, and as a result needing additional support, is a separate problem — an argument for affirmative action — but ultimately is nothing different than all the other classes of peoples who’ve been fucked by history struggling to find security in the US (that is, any solution to the problem is not really particular to Indians, or the caste-system).

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Re:Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallo... by kelnos on Friday June 10, 2022 @06:00PM (#31699828)
> But that it occurs in India does not mean that it’s been carried forward in the US.

It doesn't mean that, certainly, but it seems plausible that it would be, to some extent. And while some lower-caste Indians in the US don't believe they've suffered caste-based discrimination, other do. So... it's here?

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