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My personal experience, admittedly anecdotal, for context: My cofounder and I have started 2 businesses together, across 11 years and I have no idea what his c
by ajju 6y ago
My personal experience, admittedly anecdotal, for context: My cofounder and I have started 2 businesses together, across 11 years and I have no idea what his caste is. Of the 50+ Indians who work at our company I think I know the caste of two of them - because of a shared family last name. In my 17 years in the workforce working as an Indian with Indians in America, I have only once heard someone mention their own caste - which was to share A personal account of discrimination the previous generation of their family faced in India a few decades ago. Having said that, caste discrimination is alive and well in large pockets of ignorance in India and the larger a group of people the higher the likelihood of ignorance and bias. Given the sad history around caste in India, this is not a problem to ignore.
- fmajid 6y agoI know a Brahmin gentleman of my parents' generation, living in the US for decades. He was plenty fond of steak, until his kids got to marriage age, at which point he became vegetarian. He made it clear non-Brahmins would not be acceptable matches for his kids. So it may not be a big deal for your group, but it may be for others.