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> Indians are some of the most racially nepotistic out there I’ve heard this claim made often here but never observed it in real life. I think you and others

> Indians are some of the most racially nepotistic out there I’ve heard this claim made often here but never observed it in real life. I think you and others who repeat this claim are confusing nepotism with just using one’s network to accelerate hiring. If someone happens to have a social or professional network mostly of one race, that doesn’t mean they’re automatically nepotistic when they draw from that network. Somehow this label rarely arises when white managers end up with mostly white teams. Why is that?

Cumpiler69 2y ago
> Somehow this label rarely arises when white managers end up with mostly white teams. Why is that? Easy: If you're in a country that's ~90% white, why would it be a surprise that 90% of the labor ends up being white? Are you seriously trying to play dumb and question obvious stuff like demographics under the nepotism/racism playing card? Similarly, why would it be surprising that a team in India is ~100% Indians? But if in a country with a majority white demographic, Indian managers hire their wives, extended family members and Indian connection to work in their teams, therefore excluding a lot of the local, mostly white candidates, from the resume pile out of the get-go, you can't not raise eyebrows and assume potential discriminatory hiring practices, which are illegal in most western nations.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
  You’re making up the assumptions of nepotism. Everyone hires from their network or their employees’ networks. What do you think referral programs are, which are basically at every company? If you’ve worked with someone before and had a positive experience, they’re a much better bet than other candidates. Even if candidates are mostly white locally, the person doing the hiring may have past experiences where their network looks more like wherever they worked previously. That doesn’t mean they’re doing anything discriminatory or nepotistic now - they may just be hiring qualified people from their network, like everyone does. By the way, I haven’t personally seen or heard of any examples of Indians (or other races) hiring wives and family members. This is often alleged and yet I’ve never come across a real life example. I am not saying it doesn’t happen at all, but that if it does, it is probably very rare and no different than how often it can happen with any other group. What I often see is people claiming that Indians hiring Indians (regardless of familial relations) is nepotistic, and I think that’s an assumption without basis.
xp84 2y ago
First of all the term nepotism doesn’t get used there because white managers with mostly white teams simply get called racist, and “in violation of our DEI policy.” For white people, just having your whole network be mostly white is itself said to be a red flag to a lot of people, regardless of how it came to be that way. So the same should apply to Indian people too. Their network ought to be more diverse if that’s the only place they are going to hire from. (Or else we can drop the quotas, and hire on merit only - I’m absolutely fine with that!) Personally my network has plenty of both. I’ve worked with some incredible Indian, American, and Indian-American people and they’ve each earned my respect.

Cumpiler69 2y ago

> Somehow this label rarely arises when white managers end up with mostly white teams. Why is that? Easy: If you're in a country that's ~90% white, why would it be a surprise that 90% of the labor ends up being white? Are you seriously trying to play dumb and question obvious stuff like demographics under the nepotism/racism playing card? Similarly, why would it be surprising that a team in India is ~100% Indians? But if in a country with a majority white demographic, Indian managers hire their wives, extended family members and Indian connection to work in their teams, therefore excluding a lot of the local, mostly white candidates, from the resume pile out of the get-go, you can't not raise eyebrows and assume potential discriminatory hiring practices, which are illegal in most western nations.

blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
You’re making up the assumptions of nepotism. Everyone hires from their network or their employees’ networks. What do you think referral programs are, which are basically at every company? If you’ve worked with someone before and had a positive experience, they’re a much better bet than other candidates. Even if candidates are mostly white locally, the person doing the hiring may have past experiences where their network looks more like wherever they worked previously. That doesn’t mean they’re doing anything discriminatory or nepotistic now - they may just be hiring qualified people from their network, like everyone does. By the way, I haven’t personally seen or heard of any examples of Indians (or other races) hiring wives and family members. This is often alleged and yet I’ve never come across a real life example. I am not saying it doesn’t happen at all, but that if it does, it is probably very rare and no different than how often it can happen with any other group. What I often see is people claiming that Indians hiring Indians (regardless of familial relations) is nepotistic, and I think that’s an assumption without basis.

xp84 2y ago

First of all the term nepotism doesn’t get used there because white managers with mostly white teams simply get called racist, and “in violation of our DEI policy.” For white people, just having your whole network be mostly white is itself said to be a red flag to a lot of people, regardless of how it came to be that way. So the same should apply to Indian people too. Their network ought to be more diverse if that’s the only place they are going to hire from. (Or else we can drop the quotas, and hire on merit only - I’m absolutely fine with that!) Personally my network has plenty of both. I’ve worked with some incredible Indian, American, and Indian-American people and they’ve each earned my respect.