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If someone wants some more background information. A few decades ago during the Cold War, there were several large scale anti-caste movements, and this caused
by woweoe 4y ago
If someone wants some more background information.
A few decades ago during the Cold War, there were several large scale anti-caste movements, and this caused a lot of the moneyed upper caste (note that many of the upper caste are poor) to flee to the US where money often open doors. The immigration to the UK and the other English speaking countries tended to be more varied and more middle class based on skills (doctors, engineers, etc...).
It's widely known within India that a notable portion of the upper caste are based in the US, but in India the IT industry is one of the most caste-blind industries in India, along with how the majority of the IT industry is based in South India where casteism is traditionally less.
- thunkshift1 4y ago
- sreevisakh 4y agoThat isn't even right because almost every single victim of caste discrimination is an Indian themselves. If there are caste allegations outside India, then it can only be from Indians themselves. Covering it under the wide umbrella of anti-India smear campaign is disingenuous at best.
- woweoe 4y agoYes and no. Casteism is virtually a non-existent concept among the Indian diaspora in the West, who are mostly in the second generation or further, though the US is possibly an exception. If you asked an Indian person in Australia about casteism then they would look at you as if you were asking something about India history and implied they weren't Australian. Furthermore casteism in the Indian American circles or even the Indian American IT industry may actually be worse than the casteism in India, because caste is a rare discussion point in the Indian tech world, and casteism is a less poignant issue in South India where most of the tech industry is based.
- kyawzazaw 4y ago> Casteism is virtually a non-existent concept among the Indian diaspora in the West Doesn't Cisco case deny this statement?
- woweoe 4y agoWhich is why the "America might be a different case" was added. I suspect that the casteism was allowed to flourish among some Indian Americans, whereas in India the casteism was actively dismantled (and to how the IT industry is primarily in areas where casteism is less). Indian diaspora in the rest of the West were more middle class and probably did not care for caste at all in the first place.