Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
For people who discuss this with Indian co-workers - don&#x27;t be surprised if they find this bizarre or far fetched. For most upper caste folks, it <i>appears</i> as if the caste system doesn&#x27;t exist because they&#x27;ve never been at the receiving end of it. Most people (me included) would be tempted to say - I&#x27;ve never discriminated, I&#x27;ve never seen it happen in front of me, I&#x27;m confident none of my friends would do it so therefore it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>But it does. It&#x27;s heartbreaking that my fellow Indians have to deal with this in 2020. Just like BLM educated some white people about the <i>existence</i> of racism, how it manifests, how it affects people etc., we need a similar movement to educate upper caste Indians.<p>I&#x27;ve also seen the same people say &quot;if we completely ignore caste, it&#x27;ll go away&quot;. It won&#x27;t. I personally can&#x27;t tell you what someone&#x27;s caste is based on their name because I don&#x27;t care enough to find out the mapping between name &lt;=&gt; caste. If everyone was like this, there wouldn&#x27;t be a problem. But I know for a fact that there exist people who can map name to caste and these people also discriminate on the basis of caste. These people might only be a minority but they can have a disproportionate effect. As long as they exist, the rest of us can&#x27;t adopt an ostrich approach to the caste system.