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This article is almost a caricature of articles like itself. What makes this interesting to people? Is it because it's so over the top with bad tropes it become
by krageon 6y ago
This article is almost a caricature of articles like itself. What makes this interesting to people? Is it because it's so over the top with bad tropes it becomes funny?
- corty 6y agoI guess it is because people often forget that there are downsides to diversity: You are importing foreign cultures that you do not understand and are legally/organisationally unprepared for. The article is interesting because it provides a contrast to the common refrain of "diversity good" and "other cultures provide benefits". There is often a lack of balance and nuance in reporting imho, and this kind of article provides at least a little of the opposing view.
- krageon 6y agoI think as a society we are plenty prepared to say "it is not right to discriminate based on who your parents were or where you were born". Not doing so is a choice (to wit, the wrong choice).
- raxxorrax 6y agoI don't like diversity/inclusion pushed down my throat either and I think people are actually two steps in front of institutions promoting it the strongest, but the intersecting economic problems are similar all over the world. Hinduism and its caste system seem alien to most western people, but the "you should know your place, peasant" - argument is pretty similar in some interpretations in Abrahamic religions. But sure, some cultures have their own peculiarities and I think not being apart of religious communities is still very rare in India.
- empressplay 6y agoNo, it's interesting because this whole caste thing is _horrifying_ to any sort of egalitarian - eg _almost everyone in tech_
- krageon 6y agoThe title does not claim, but heavily implies this happens basically everywhere in US tech. Then it gives a few anecdotes and goes on to give some very bad Indian examples. I'll be the first to agree that this looks bad, just like the advertisements of starving african children look very bad. At least those advertisements don't imply that all african children live in such conditions.
- nzyat 6y agoIndians are a minority. The brain of some people will explode when they see minorities can also discriminate!!