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I have witnessed this as well, and it has been absolutely shocking and disgusting. Here is my experience. I am leading a meeting with about four native Indians
by o0-0o 6y ago
I have witnessed this as well, and it has been absolutely shocking and disgusting. Here is my experience. I am leading a meeting with about four native Indians that were here in America, and a couple that were dialed in from India. The meeting was with a large US based financial institution. Towards the end of the call, a senior member of the team joined. The mood of the meeting changed entirely. Everyone on the call kept asking for his opinion and what he thought, and he had nothing to add and no context about anything we had been discussing. I thought that was weird, and then started googling their last names and caste systems in India on a hunch. Yep, it was the reason, I deduced. I have no proof, but if I were a betting man... I always thought the highest castes in India were religious, so it seems like this is a battle between the castes lower than that. Regardless, there is no place for this in America.
- hairband 6y ago> I thought that was weird, and then started googling their last names and caste systems in India on a hunch. You saw people asking for opinions from a senior member and your first thought was casteism? How does one even make that leap?
- o0-0o 6y agoLet me clarify my point here. It was not that I 'saw people asking for opinions', it was the whole interaction. Literally, is was shocking. The silence, the agreement, and everything else. People that had made a point before were afraid to express it. People that were speaking did not speak anymore. The incorrect path was taken, and it was not the first time I've seen this behavior. I look up everything I suspect online, and I don't think that's making a leap. It is simply using tools available to shine a light on the truth.