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Ask HN: Is This Racial Discrimination?

So, I had a founder of a newly funded American startup tell me that he thought I was going to be either "Pakistani" or at least "brown" when we were talking on a video call (because of my name). He was (I believe) Indian American. And when I told him that while I am not Pakistani, I am in fact "brown" by some definitions since I am mixed hispanic, black, and white. He seemed dismissive of...

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