> Cisco's HR lawyers decided Caste discrimination was legal A risky decision, since it's effectively ethnic discrimination: These groups remained genetically

> Cisco's HR lawyers decided Caste discrimination was legal A risky decision, since it's effectively ethnic discrimination: These groups remained genetically distinct, and the linguistic history of India suggests they spoke languages with dramatically different origins. Nevertheless, it appears there was a good deal of intermarriage [..] But then there is a sea change about 1,500 years ago. [..] People had to marry within their castes. And suddenly, we no longer see signs of intermixing between different groups. https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/the-caste-system-has-left-its-mark-on-indians-genomes/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/the-caste-system-has...