When Maya, a computer scientist, left India in 2002 at age 21, she thought she was finally leaving her home country’s oppressive caste system behind.

But she soon learned that caste discrimination didn’t respect borders, and for 18 years she has faced discrimination at the hands of higher-caste Brahmin Indians who have established powerful cliques within many of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies. She has hidden her identity and even used fake names to get work.

“You see the social seclusion within your colleagues. They don’t want to eat lunch with you, they don’t smile back at you, they do not have longer conversations with you,” Maya told VICE News. “If I use my real name, I get excluded from the interviews.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3azjp5/silicon-valley-has-a-caste-discrimination-problem

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