"those choosing to emigrate are most likely to be willing or wanting to leave that nonsense behind"

In the modern, technologically connected world, it is much harder to leave nonsense behind. Even if you move to the other side of the world, you will still be exposed to your home country's politics through easily obtainable TV channels and through your Internet acquaintances on worldwide social networks. In a way that was impossible in 1920 or 1820.

That's might have been true of the more "enlightened" Indian engineers who immigrated to Silicon Valley in the 80s and 90s. There were also ambitious Indians who liked the old ways but lacked the opportunity to engage in such discrimination until they adapted or the opportunity eventually arose.

Either way, as more and more of a certain ethnicity/race enter a country for the purposes of bettering their financial prospects, many of these immigrants reinvent the social dynamics of their origin country. This is how enclaves are created. And while many of the "enlightened" Indians have left behind explicit caste discrimination, they didn't leave other practices behind either ( e.g. parental authoritarianism, arranged marriages, etc.).

A different geography doesn't necessarily produce a different worldview. Every immigrant arrives with his own family values, religious dogmas (or lack thereof), and modes of thought that lead to these aforementioned conflicts.

> Caste has no place in America. It's antithetical to our founding values

If we're excluding slavery as a de facto caste system, then sure. However certain behaviors being antithetical to our founding values doesn't make them easily solvable problems.

Happens pretty frequently.

One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Irish_Americans_in_...

So which way do you want it then? Multiculturalism, with all the "nonsense" that comes from those cultures, or do you just want every brown person to come to america and start acting white?

I thought one of the big benefits of multiculturalism (that all big businesses love to tout) is how it brings diversity of cultural values to the workplace. Well I guess mission accomplished because now you've got the indian caste system in the workplace.

> Plenty of Indians emigrate while leaving their caste identity

Caste is something most Indians grow up with, you dont really lose it just because you go to another country. Most kids of these Indians fortunately dont really care about caste.

The IRA visited Boston every year to pass the hat during the troubles. Sinn Fein is still raising money in the USA.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/sinn-féin-raised-12...

>Caste has no place in America. It's antithetical to our founding values.

"Caste" as being your ring in the social hierarchy is present in almost any culture or civilization, and prejudiced treatment of people in either higher or lower social rings is definitely (in my opinion) a part of American culture. This country definitely offers special treatment and privilege to those in higher "castes"... Hell, even just having a Southern accent in America will grant you a prejudiced treatment in many settings.