<story><title>Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination</title><url>https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-becomes-first-tech-giant-to-explicitly-ban-caste-discrimination-trains-managers-on-indian-caste-system-1988183-2022-08-15</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>My dad once told me of how at his work (in the 1980s or early 1990s, I think), they had a team of two Indians assigned to a project. One turned out to be of a much &amp;quot;higher&amp;quot; caste than the other, and refused to work with the other, making him utterly useless to the project.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s good that Apple, IBM and other tech companies are taking steps to prevent this sort of discrimination. It&amp;#x27;s a shame that Google seems be going in the opposite direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>The real shame is that living in Delhi, I’ve seen caste come back very strongly in everyday discourse.&lt;p&gt;I’ve been here almost 20 years. This city used to be largely caste agnostic.&lt;p&gt;Now when I meet new people, especially outside the elite tech circles, they will casually mention their upper caste status (“As Brahmins, we don’t do xyz of course!”).&lt;p&gt;Even cars carrying caste stickers are more common.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination</title><url>https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-becomes-first-tech-giant-to-explicitly-ban-caste-discrimination-trains-managers-on-indian-caste-system-1988183-2022-08-15</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>My dad once told me of how at his work (in the 1980s or early 1990s, I think), they had a team of two Indians assigned to a project. One turned out to be of a much &amp;quot;higher&amp;quot; caste than the other, and refused to work with the other, making him utterly useless to the project.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s good that Apple, IBM and other tech companies are taking steps to prevent this sort of discrimination. It&amp;#x27;s a shame that Google seems be going in the opposite direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcl</author><text>It says in the article that Google (and Microsoft, Dell, Amazon + FB&amp;#x2F;Meta) aren&amp;#x27;t (yet?) implementing this, but I didn&amp;#x27;t see anything about them doing the &lt;i&gt;opposite&lt;/i&gt;. Additionally I don&amp;#x27;t imagine they&amp;#x27;d gain much from doing so, as a business. Is there any more info on this?</text></comment>