> Not sure how those folks could be leveraging their social class in America.
One example off the top of my head: Indian caste discrimination in Silicon Valley [1][2]. Cisco was even sued by the state of California for such discrimination [3].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24952698
In my org, half of the senior staff and executives weren’t even born in America. They were naturalized citizens or on work permits.
Not sure how those folks could be leveraging their social class in America.