Caste Arrives In Silicon Valley

Planet Money

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🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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For some Indian employees of big U.S. tech companies, caste discrimination is real. To combat it, first people have to talk about it. That's hard. | Today's episode is from our friends at Rough Translation.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:04.2	Hello, and welcome to Planet Money.
0:08.2	I'm Nick Fountain.
0:09.8	Today we're going to play part of an episode of one of my favorite podcasts.
0:14.3	It's called Rough Translation.
0:15.8	It's hosted by Gregory Warner.
0:17.9	I'm sure you've heard him on Planet Money before.
0:20.8	The show we've adapted today is one they did recently about how some of the most powerful
0:26.1	tech companies in the US are reckoning with discrimination.
0:31.0	It's a form of discrimination I had not heard of before in America.
0:35.2	Here's Greg.
0:36.5	When Sam Cornelius first arrived at the United States in the mid 90s, he was surprised
0:40.5	by how welcoming people were.
0:42.1	The people were so encouraging, you know, hey, we are going to this swimming classes, do
0:47.0	you want to join us and things like that.
0:49.8	They'd ask questions by this home country, India.
0:52.6	But even more surprising was the questions they did not ask.
0:55.8	For instance, they did not try to know what his cast was or even what cast is.
1:01.7	And how did that feel for you like putting aside cast?
1:06.0	That is really great feeling, you know, that yes, now everything I will be judged by
1:09.9	exactly what I deserve.
1:15.3	Sam is from the Dalat cast, formerly known as Untouchables.
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