Comment by kamaal | Hacker News Reader

Comment by kamaal | Hacker News Reader

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>>Caste concerns in America shouldn't be one of them.

It is a concern.

As much as struggle stories you hear there in the US, they are on top of some next level cheating, privilege and machiavellian play involved in trampling people back home in India and arriving there in US and then acting all fair and merit.

Multiply this with discrimination at every level in office places. This is at many levels religious, class, caste and even linguistic basis.

I've seen the absolute worst of humanity(from Indians to Indians) during my stay there as an Indian immigrant until I returned, its literally dog eat dog.

Prior discussions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24552047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24952698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26435117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24555492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17531795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23798922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24933169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24065132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23703325

All of these seem like anecdotal examples, and frankly these stories reek of an anti-Indian bias because they involve an amplification of a few lone samples. I’ll also point out that it is easy for people who aren’t happy with their station in life or particular outcomes to find an external thing to lay blame on, like discrimination. But I find some of these stories suspicious, simply because we don’t know the other side of the story and we don’t know why they didn’t get [a promotion or a job or whatever]. Maybe they were just bad at their job.

> I've seen the absolute worst of humanity(from Indians to Indians) during my stay there as an Indian immigrant until I returned, its literally dog eat dog.

I’m not sure what you mean here. You say “its literally dog eat dog”, but the word ‘literally’ has a certain meaning. Are you saying…that your coworkers are dogs and are eating each other? This type of emotional statement makes me view your prior claims with skepticism.

>>I’m not sure what you mean here.

It's a phrase in the english language.

>>Are you saying…that your coworkers are dogs and are eating each other?

Google Search "define dog eat dog"

    dog eat dog
    phrase of dog
    used to refer to a situation of fierce competition in which people are willing to harm each other in order to succeed.

The above commenter likely is familiar with the expression, but they are being an obnoxious pedant about your use of the word "literally", which usually means "without metaphor" or exaggeration.

An Indian guy talking about how he's treated by other Indian guys "reeks of anti-Indian bias"? Ok buddy.

Well, "self-hating" can happen to Indians too...

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