Both Apple and IBM have added caste discrimination to existing anti-discrimination rules based on race, religion, gender, age and ancestry. The news had not been reported before, but The New Yorker’s report on caste discrimination within Google brought renewed attention to the issue. The caste system in India has been in place for two thousand years. In this system, the priests or Brahmins are at the top, followed by warriors or Kshatriyas, then merchants, peasants or Vaishyas, and servants and craftsmen all belong to the Sudra. The lowest in this system are the untouchables or untouchables, known as Dalits. Not long ago, if the Dali encountered someone from the upper caste, they had to fall to the ground so as not to contaminate the upper caste with their shadows. Violators will be beaten, which is still happening in India today. The Dalits now make up a quarter of India’s population. In the United States, 90% of Indian immigrants are from upper castes. In 2020, California’s employment watchdog sued Cisco Systems on behalf of a Dalit engineer who said he was discriminated against by higher caste superiors and affected his career prospects. The lawsuit prompted tech companies including Apple and IBM to add rules against caste discrimination. Google’s engineers also asked the company to explicitly combat caste discrimination, but received no response from their bosses. Google CEO Sundar Pichai is from Brahmin.
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