How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon Valley
Who&#x27;s worked with Brahmin IITians, raise a paw? :paw emoji here:<p>I hope the Valley absorbs all of the world&#x27;s horrible tech sociological antipatterns because I ejected from that heap. Transient gold miners descended on the place where I grew up, treated it disposably, and failed to make any effort to integrate because they&#x27;re just visiting to make their coin. Sunnyvale Costco is like an airport in Burma (okay, Myanmar), not because of race, culture, or ethnicity, but because of the predominant &quot;fuck it&quot; attitude: don&#x27;t learn the customs, don&#x27;t speak the language, don&#x27;t put down roots, and don&#x27;t interact with locals. There are perfectly nice, Americanized immigrants like a good fraction of the TiE folks but when you bring in a junior software engineer&#x27;s extended family, you&#x27;re getting a swath of average people too... and that&#x27;s like moving a crowd of random Floridian Disneyland-goers in for a temporary extended stay.<p>Also, I noticed how the offspring of the well-to-do from authoritarian countries act like, or even worse than, drunk American college students in the rest of the world. For example, I noticed mainland PRC kids pointing, laughing, harassing, and taking poverty porn pictures of homeless people in Palo Alto.