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Some of what you are saying is true but I had a good experience with Indians maybe because I knew how to react to it. But Indians are extremely diverse. My wife
by dzhVAaT8A3Sg 6y ago
Some of what you are saying is true but I had a good experience with Indians maybe because I knew how to react to it. But Indians are extremely diverse. My wife is Brahmin, and I am white, and I've been around Brahmins as a result. I have found Brahmins who come to the US often are not particularly religious but still practice some of old customs. They complain about a lot of Brahmin hate in India and like escaping from it in the US. There are some subtleties though.
* Indians from India like old ways of addressing superiors. They appreciate if you call a manager Sir. Address him as Dear Sir.
* Religious Brahmins would not tolerate being around a Dalit because it will adversely effect their purity. There are terms for all this. Aversion to Dalits is deeper than culture, it's a religious belief. This might even be protected by religious freedom. Less religious ones I don't think care as much. Very religious Brahmins in general do not get high paying jobs and do not have a lot of power but also would hold the most discriminatory views.
* Indians have a culture of going the extra mile at work. So I think in general they don't appreciate the American view of work.
* Indians from India prefer being around other Indians but I think they also don't understand Americans well and think the American work environment is strange.
* There are a lot of horrible things that happen in India and it's not just one group that does it. There isn't really any one universally accepted victim group there. There are billionaire Dalits.
- dbcurtis 6y ago> Indians have a culture of going the extra mile at work. No more or less than any other group. I’ve seen, and promoted, hard working Indians. I had to fire an Indian that thought his freshly minted MS degree made him too good for any actual work other than spending his 2 hours of non-nap time per day telling others what to do. And I have worked with everything in between. Law of large numbers should come to mind here.
- saithound 6y ago> This might even be protected by religious freedom. It's not. Religious practices in violation of social duties or subversive of good order are not protected under free exercise of religion (Reynolds v. United States). In particular, it's a nigh-certainty that discrimination in matters of employment based on caste will be ruled illegal under Title VII (a fortiori, even employer or customer's preference for individuals of a particular _religion_ cannot be taken into account; a fortiori intra-religious preferences will not be taken into account either. This is almost certainly what will happen in California v. Cisco).
- starpilot 6y ago> Indians have a culture of going the extra mile at work. lol fuck off. Indian work culture is toxic, nothing more. Most Indians in America think so.
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- srtjstjsj 6y agoA religion is simply a culture based on a non-rational foundation.