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Vice, of all places, has a great article about it. The answer is that the folks who wish to discriminate by caste have a variety of ways to determine what your
by teachrdan 3y ago
Vice, of all places, has a great article about it. The answer is that the folks who wish to discriminate by caste have a variety of ways to determine what your caste is. FTA:
Indians will not ask outright what caste you are, as it’s seen as overly discriminatory, but they use more subtle methods to identify your place in the caste structure.
“Sometimes they ask, ‘Are you vegetarian?’ If you say yes, they ask are you vegetarian by birth or by choice, before getting into which village you come from, because sometimes the village gives up your caste,” Sam said.
Another method described to VICE News is the pat on the back to see if the person is wearing a Juneau, a sacred white thread typically worn by the upper castes in India.
Higher-caste Indians will also search social media accounts to ascertain a job candidate’s religious views or diet.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3azjp5/silicon-valley-has-a-caste-discrimination-problem https://www.vice.com/en/article/3azjp5/silicon-valley-has-a-...
- polski-g 3y agoIf they ask if you're vegetarian, say no. If they ask what village you're from, say Los Angeles. How is this not a self-inflicted injury?
- rabbitcraft 3y agoteachrdan man that does sound terrible. Who are these people who are doing that? Do you know them committing this personally? Or any other proof? Such actions should be called out. Hope it's not just a made up story, lifted from one place, and pasted in all other places. Otherwise it will be Goebbels-style peddling of lies, to make a community look bad. A lie told a 1000 times starts to be treated as truth, because everyone tells the same lie. So for your own sake, I hope you are not being Goebbels!
- sonorous_sub 3y agoMakes me wonder if you get a pat down in Utah for long johns. It would explain a lot.