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Being from a minority religion in India and being an American of Indian origin, it is strange working on tech, because my family's presumed caste (which I assum

Being from a minority religion in India and being an American of Indian origin, it is strange working on tech, because my family's presumed caste (which I assume is very low because we're not Hindu [1]), ends up dictating a lot of interactions with indians from India. Most American born ones don't seem to care. [1] the wife of my dad's friend who is high caste brahmin refused to enter our home and stayed in my brother's bedroom during the whole visit because we eat meat. Then she made a big fuss about being brahmin and how awful it must be to be a minority in both America and India. She was not very nice

throo12345 4y ago
> which I assume is very low because we're not Hindu Caste does not go away if you convert to an Abrahamic religion. Asian christians pray in separate churches and are buried in separate cemeteries from White Europeans. Non-black christians/muslims/jews have a history of treating their black counterparts very differently.
- More-nitors 4y ago
  > Asian christians pray in separate churches that's not due to some artificial separation like caste... it's something to do with homesickness/cultural/language-related natural phenomenon. (eg. church pastor is a friend of a relative etc) and no one thinks one is above the other due to the separation. (except for cooking...)
  - throo12345 4y ago
    In extreme cases, white christians even kill the non-white christians in their separate christian church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting
    - barelysapient 4y ago
      Wow, how did you work out that Dylann Roof (the murder) was christian?
    - More-nitors 4y ago
      hm maybe I can just bring bunch of examples and conclude that people just regulary kill other people just because they feel like it...
- anon291 4y ago
  > Asian christians pray in separate churches and are buried in separate cemeteries from White Europeans I can only speak to my own experience and this is not mine.
  - throo121212 4y ago
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quadrifoliate 4y ago
> ...ends up dictating a lot of interactions with indians from India. Most American born ones don't seem to care. As a counter anecdote, I know several tens of families of both India-born and American-born Indians, and caste has never been brought up or mentioned in the US. It's...just not something you talk about, a bit like race usually doesn't come up in conversations, unless you're talking about it in the context of an article like this one. I have certainly heard die-hard vegetarian Indians, for example, not want to eat in a restaurant which cooks both meat and vegetarian dishes, but that's more of a "I don't want food that has been in contact with animal flesh/fat" thing that is perhaps a bit hard, but not impossible to understand.
- throwaway_1928 4y ago
- anon291 4y ago
  It's not talked about in India either. They just assume it based on your behaviors, etc, as the article states.

throo12345 4y ago

> which I assume is very low because we're not Hindu Caste does not go away if you convert to an Abrahamic religion. Asian christians pray in separate churches and are buried in separate cemeteries from White Europeans. Non-black christians/muslims/jews have a history of treating their black counterparts very differently.

More-nitors 4y ago
> Asian christians pray in separate churches that's not due to some artificial separation like caste... it's something to do with homesickness/cultural/language-related natural phenomenon. (eg. church pastor is a friend of a relative etc) and no one thinks one is above the other due to the separation. (except for cooking...)
- throo12345 4y ago
  In extreme cases, white christians even kill the non-white christians in their separate christian church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting
  - barelysapient 4y ago
    Wow, how did you work out that Dylann Roof (the murder) was christian?
  - More-nitors 4y ago
    hm maybe I can just bring bunch of examples and conclude that people just regulary kill other people just because they feel like it...
anon291 4y ago
> Asian christians pray in separate churches and are buried in separate cemeteries from White Europeans I can only speak to my own experience and this is not mine.
- throo121212 4y ago
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quadrifoliate 4y ago

> ...ends up dictating a lot of interactions with indians from India. Most American born ones don't seem to care. As a counter anecdote, I know several tens of families of both India-born and American-born Indians, and caste has never been brought up or mentioned in the US. It's...just not something you talk about, a bit like race usually doesn't come up in conversations, unless you're talking about it in the context of an article like this one. I have certainly heard die-hard vegetarian Indians, for example, not want to eat in a restaurant which cooks both meat and vegetarian dishes, but that's more of a "I don't want food that has been in contact with animal flesh/fat" thing that is perhaps a bit hard, but not impossible to understand.

throwaway_1928 4y ago
anon291 4y ago
It's not talked about in India either. They just assume it based on your behaviors, etc, as the article states.