Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
Ok.. I am going to be brave and not going to use a throwaway. I find it perplexing that HN crowd who is usually arguing for a balanced analysis and seeing both viewpoints is suddenly behaving as if this data proves some injustice is currently happening in India as well as US (in the context of Indian caste system). To be clear, India has&#x2F;had a caste system that was extremely oppressive. Currently though, the social aspects aside, economically and crucially educationally, the &quot;lower castes&quot;, have an advantage due to a system of reservations - affirmative action on steroids. I am not going to argue one way or the other as to whether the idea or the implementation of such an affirmative action policy is fair or net positive. It probably still is in principle, but in practice the people who seem to benefit from this, in my experience, are very rich &quot;lower caste&quot; families. More things to say here, but I don&#x27;t want to digress.
The law suit in the story has to do with IIT. So let&#x27;s take that specifically. IIT is extremely competitive to get into. It is even more competitive once you are in. It is common for affirmative action students to not do very well there. Call it a difference grit&#x2F;talent&#x2F;smartness whatever. This causes a some of them to disengage from studies altogether. Then it is not a stretch to imagine that some of them may not be very good at their job either.  The  lawsuit and the accusations of casteism has to be now taken with a huge pinch of salt. To be clear, I don&#x27;t know if any of the accusations in that lawsuit are true or not. But I do know that every middle class parent (including mine) drills into their kids the idea that you have to work freaking hard at studies to &quot;get some where&quot;. Everything about that 90 percent statistic can be explained through economics (already rich with all its advantages) or through desperation (high caste+ poor =&gt; no chance except if you work really hard). Of course I knew a few so called &quot;lower caste&quot; people in IIT who got in through the &quot;general category&quot; ie purely on merit. They were just as good as anybody there and are also doing well in the tech scene in US.
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Added the below sentence.<p>The cynic in me thinks this guy accuser in the lawsuit is trying to hide his incompetence by taking advantage of the BLM and current sentiments.