MIT abandons use of DEI statements

Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by akavi on Monday May 06, 2024 @12:59PM (#40276746)

As an Indian-American, "South Asian" is a perfectly reasonable ethnic grouping in the United States. Collectively, that represents ~1% of the US population, too small a grouping to reasonably split out when talking about ethnicity in general terms.

All cultures are fractal. For my own ethnic heritage, for example, I could insist on splitting out:

* South Indian Dravidians from North Indian Arynans

* Kannadigas from other South Indians

* Lingayats from Vaishnavites

But that level of detail (absent special contexts where its relevant) would almost always confuse rather than clarify.

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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by KorematsuFredt on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:08PM (#40276837)

South Asian is not "reasonable" it is pretty much racist. We white people could not be bothered with actually noticing the difference between Pakistan and India is the reason.

> Lingayats from Vaishnavites

This tells me you are probably some kind of humanities graduate from some murican university ?

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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by akavi on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:55PM (#40277439)

I'm Indian-American, as I stated above, and the list of subcategories are my own ethnic taxonomy.

I'm not sure what part of the Lingayat distinction bothers you. My grandparents would characterize it as "Lingayat" vs "Brahmina"; would you have preferred that framing?

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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by KorematsuFredt on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @01:30PM (#40288830)

I don't care about whatever you frame. South Asia = Pakistan.

Read replies to this: https://twitter.com/USAndMumbai/status/1787772852084830251

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