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HN is and has been passively aggressive towards Indians, I think anyone who browses this forum for a month would know that, it's hardly news. I also don't under

HN is and has been passively aggressive towards Indians, I think anyone who browses this forum for a month would know that, it's hardly news. I also don't understand your critique and would advise you to refrain from generalizing all Americans as an extrapolation of this extremely niche forum.

GordonS 6y ago
Even within HN, I'd say it's only a small but vocal minority of Americans that express these kind of views. From what I can tell, the underlying causes are animosity about the H1B program, misconceptions about migrant workers, and latent racism. But to be clear: plainly not all negative comments about H1B or outsourcing fall into the above category.
- newyorker2 6y ago
  You're absolutely right - especially the second point. With that said, I often find the xenophobia here a bit disturbing, but (and thats a massive but) to say those are "typical American ethics" (like above) tantamounts to a sweeping generalization. One which does not represent American values at all.
  - tonyedgecombe 6y ago
    It's hard to understand American values when you look at who America votes into office.
    - thatguy0900 6y ago
      America has two sets of values, urban and rural. I just finished a 3 hour drive between Indiana and Ohio and you will go 30 minutes seeing only trump signs in rural yards then see it slowly swap to Biden and blm when you get into more dense areas then slowly phase back into trump signs as you get back into rural towns and farmland. Very rarely do you see two different signs in the same area, though wihh how polarizing politics is now that could just be to avoid antagonism.
    - dang 6y ago
      Please don't take HN threads further into political or national flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
ystad 6y ago
'HN is and has been passively aggressive towards Indians, I think anyone who browses this forum for a month would know that, it's hardly news.'. --- This is a generalization unsubstantiated with no data or references. I find no evidence of this
dang 6y ago
> HN is and has been passively aggressive towards Indians HN is not a person, so it doesn't have feelings. Any population sample of millions of people, which HN is, is going to surface examples of pretty much whatever feeling or view you care to mention. I'd be careful not to draw general conclusions from this, because people tend to do that as a mirror image of their own feelings and views, not through any objective perception of HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=notice%20dislike%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098
- newyorker2 6y ago
  You'll notice I stopped engaging with the replies once I recognized there was a texas-sharpshooter being invoked by my subconscious self through the parent comment. If we got a DUI but for using the internet, I would be top10 ;)

GordonS 6y ago

Even within HN, I'd say it's only a small but vocal minority of Americans that express these kind of views. From what I can tell, the underlying causes are animosity about the H1B program, misconceptions about migrant workers, and latent racism. But to be clear: plainly not all negative comments about H1B or outsourcing fall into the above category.

newyorker2 6y ago
You're absolutely right - especially the second point. With that said, I often find the xenophobia here a bit disturbing, but (and thats a massive but) to say those are "typical American ethics" (like above) tantamounts to a sweeping generalization. One which does not represent American values at all.
- tonyedgecombe 6y ago
  It's hard to understand American values when you look at who America votes into office.
  - thatguy0900 6y ago
    America has two sets of values, urban and rural. I just finished a 3 hour drive between Indiana and Ohio and you will go 30 minutes seeing only trump signs in rural yards then see it slowly swap to Biden and blm when you get into more dense areas then slowly phase back into trump signs as you get back into rural towns and farmland. Very rarely do you see two different signs in the same area, though wihh how polarizing politics is now that could just be to avoid antagonism.
  - dang 6y ago
    Please don't take HN threads further into political or national flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ystad 6y ago

'HN is and has been passively aggressive towards Indians, I think anyone who browses this forum for a month would know that, it's hardly news.'. --- This is a generalization unsubstantiated with no data or references. I find no evidence of this

dang 6y ago

> HN is and has been passively aggressive towards Indians HN is not a person, so it doesn't have feelings. Any population sample of millions of people, which HN is, is going to surface examples of pretty much whatever feeling or view you care to mention. I'd be careful not to draw general conclusions from this, because people tend to do that as a mirror image of their own feelings and views, not through any objective perception of HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=notice%20dislike%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098

newyorker2 6y ago
You'll notice I stopped engaging with the replies once I recognized there was a texas-sharpshooter being invoked by my subconscious self through the parent comment. If we got a DUI but for using the internet, I would be top10 ;)