Anti Indian graffiti in San Jose bathrooms

[kevinUsa]

Yyyyyyup. I'm American-born Indian and my wife is white-presenting (has a lot of different ethnicities in her genetic makeup) and we always get stared at when going out where there are Indian people, especially at Indian grocery stores.

My niece was visiting us over the Christmas break and she was like "why's everyone looking at me?" It's goddamn sad. Most of these fuckers stay in their Indian house 500 days a year, eat only Indian food, go to Indian temple, and hang out with their Indian friends. That's their whole life. So all they know is their own culture instead of actually reaching out to people who don't look exactly like them.

[kevinUsa]

That’s absolutely terrible and I am so to read this as someone who can relate. As someone also in an interracial relationship, it’s bananas to me when people often assume we aren’t together or they stare at us when they see us together. It doesn’t happen as much in the Bay anymore but when we go to other states/places it happens more. I wish racism against couples who are together despite different racial/social economic/religious backgrounds was talked about more. I hate when people stare at us like we’re some circus show when we’re literally just two people existing and enjoying our time together.

[kevinUsa]

My wife has to deal with this in her line of work (Biotech) all the time. She constantly complains how the older Indian men just talk down to all the women even though everyone has masters and PHDs. On top of that the constant staring and being checked out every time she grabs a cup of coffee or is just walking in the hallways. She is mixed race so many think she might be Indian or middle eastern but she’s neither but the Indian and to be fair the white guys no matter where we go are always constantly checking her out. I’m a guy and I understand that guys check women out but this is beyond that they just stare and I have to basically start staring at them back so they can stop. The 5 sec rule applies here once you check someone out keep it moving but the creepy weird staring is just so wild. How lame are these guys like they’ve never seen a women before.

 

[kevinUsa]

Also an Indian woman and it really depends on what kind of Desi man. I've had a few amazing fellow Indian coworkers who were H1Bs who were very respectful and took me seriously. Trying to get into leadership roles though is far from just a misogynistic problem within the Indian community. The problem is way more widespread than that and so focusing on just Indians with the problem doesn't actually help the problem. You're ignoring the other races that do the same thing and continue to make it harder for women to see leadership roles.

 

[Gaali_Gottam_Govinda]

1 hour ago, pichhipullayya said:

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Im a Indian woman, who works at a tech company. I have to deal with dev/IT (where 95% are Indian men), many of them talk down to me like I'm an inferior class of human. They openly lie, point fingers, it's so bad I ask every call to be recorded and often have to pull out time stamps. My Indian women friends/coworkers have the same issue.

Ee chillardi gender include chesi specific gaa "Indian men" meeda edisthe deeni meeda jaali soopistaar anukuntundi..... Typical indian slavery mentality mindset... Indian men tho paatu deeni kooda chekkestaru ani teliyadu deeniki... 

[kevinUsa]

Honestly comments here have been an eye opener for me. I’m an F1 visa Indian. I always thought US has hugely benefited from H1 immigration bringing the best and the brightest into the country. But I guess I was wrong. But so are a lot of people on this sub in my opinion. Has the H1 visa program hugely benefited the US? YES. Has it been misused over the years? ALSO YES. I think most people are either for or against these visas without realising both these things can be true at the same time.

And honestly imo this has a fairly simple fix. Just raise the minimum wage on the H1 visa hires so that it’s actually cheaper to hire an American than a foreign visa worker. Currently I believe the minimum wage for an H1B is 81k/year. Push it to a 100K with a revision every 2 years or so and all those jobs are back and America still gets the best and brightest from across the world.

[kevinUsa]

 

The H1B visa is intended for positions where there is a shortage of qualified US workers. If such candidates are scarce, dissatisfied H1B holders should be able to find alternative sponsors easily. If they cannot, then these positions do not meet the H1B visa's requirements in the first place. This is immigration fraud by both employers and employees.

 

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[kevinUsa]

The H1B visa is intended for positions where there is a shortage of qualified US workers. If such candidates are scarce, dissatisfied H1B holders should be able to find alternative sponsors easily. If they cannot, then these positions do not meet the H1B visa's requirements in the first place. This is immigration fraud by both employers and employees.

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This fraud also ties into a bunch of ghost job listings. Company’s will post jobs for a certain period of time (3-6 months, something like that), then when they “have no qualified candidates” they’ll outsource the job.

Of course they’ll have plenty of candidates, but their goal was never to hire qualified local candidates (which they’d have to pay a competitive wage), it was always to outsource the labor.

[pichhipullayya]

Just now, kevinUsa said:

Honestly comments here have been an eye opener for me. I’m an F1 visa Indian. I always thought US has hugely benefited from H1 immigration bringing the best and the brightest into the country. But I guess I was wrong. But so are a lot of people on this sub in my opinion. Has the H1 visa program hugely benefited the US? YES. Has it been misused over the years? ALSO YES. I think most people are either for or against these visas without realising both these things can be true at the same time.

And honestly imo this has a fairly simple fix. Just raise the minimum wage on the H1 visa hires so that it’s actually cheaper to hire an American than a foreign visa worker. Currently I believe the minimum wage for an H1B is 81k/year. Push it to a 100K with a revision every 2 years or so and all those jobs are back and America still gets the best and brightest from across the world.

mundu ee scrap FI & OPTs ni bayataku 10gaali

H1b ki bokka pedithe vellaku jobs vastaai anukuntunnaru

Btech ee All in ones tho pass aiyna scrap ani marchi potunnaru

[kevinUsa]

The same Indians who take those jobs are complaining all the time about the H1B process being “unfair”. Since when is working in another country the easiest thing to do. If you hate coming here so much then why not go back? It’s annoying as they come here, taking American jobs, and complain practically nonstop about how it’s not fair they have to jump through these hoops and how much better India is and how terrible the states are. They are very insular and can be discriminatory in their practices and speak Hindi a lot around the office. And they complain about Mexican people coming here illegally as if it’s anywhere near the same thing. As if they have a single one of the luxuries they have. It’s really annoying how pompous some people are about being better than Americans.

[kevinUsa]

Most people prefer to hire other people "like them", given a choice. Same gender, same race, same school, same previous company. It is human nature. If one race/gender/school/company does this for a few years, then it will become a positive feedback cycle, where the candidate pool will be skewed towards this bias.

If you want to avoid it, you need a robust and diverse system of hiring - basically the very DEI programs people are now trying to eliminate.

I think this is all secondary to the H1B issue. I feel that the H1B program itself is valuable. But the government is not enforcing it properly. In particular, the key aspect of H1B is that the company is supposed to show they could not find this talent in US. As someone who worked in check for 30 plus years, this part of the program is a joke. I have hired probably 100+ H1B candidates over the decades, and I can only think of 2 that had unique skills I couldn't find in US. Ll of the others were just because H1B got me a candidate faster .

We really should have a national H-1B job board. If a company can show they recruited for this job for 6 weeks and had no qualified US applicants, they can add that job description to the national board. If it goes to the national board for 3 weeks and there are still no valid candidates, then they are approved to hire foreigners.

[ARYA]

lol bathroom lo raasadaa 

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[tokkalogola]

49 minutes ago, Jatka Bandi said:

Manollantha kaliste tellollaki vaalla own medicine taste chupinchadam entha sepu? Cheyam. Okalla meeda okallam padi edustam.

Bro .. BSE mostly depends on FII foreign investment.. india lo most of IT jobs depends on US companies.. for employment we depend on west for good we depend on china ... antha dependency unna valam emi cheyalemu . Middle class dependent on jobs from western companies.. poor are dependent on freebies .. our tax is dependent on those middle class ..our foreign reserves are dependent on NRI remittances .we are dependent 😊

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10 minutes ago, ARYA said:

lol bathroom lo raasadaa 

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