Infosys accused of racism

I&#x27;m unsure if there&#x27;s racism at play here. The business model of Infosys is based on outsourcing to India, with the US employees mostly acting as go-betweens.<p>Likewise, Huawei&#x27;s US workforce is overwhelmingly Chinese, but that&#x27;s probably not a result of racism. Samsung&#x27;s US R&amp;D is almost fully Korean at the top - not because of racism<p>In India, as a counter example, Philips, the Dutch company, has most of the upper brass as Dutch. Again, not because of racism, but because of the go-between nature of the job

&gt; In 2013, India’s second-largest IT firm took a $34 million hit—the largest ever payment in a visa case—after a Texas court found the behemoth guilty of “systemic visa fraud and abuse.”<p>&gt; Green, the former global head of immigration who has previously spoken out about the detrimental effect of curbing H-1B visas on the US tech sector, is accusing Infosys of using the very same work visas to replace or supplant non-south Asians at the company.<p>This is probably one of the reasons why there&#x27;s a lot of people in tech industry (other than CEOs) who want stricter immigration rules in the US.

As a person of South Asian origin, I am glad this is out. My friends, Indians and non-Indians applied to these firms after college. Only Indians were called in for interviews. And only international students took the job offers as they promised H1B after their work permit expires.<p>We thought it was raciest that none of non-Indian friends even get a chance to do interview but they all end up with offers at better companies, so no one looked deep into this.

Wow, some of the rationalizing here is priceless. I hope the folks dismissing this apply their logic evenly.<p>Here&#x27;s some of what I&#x27;ve read so far:<p>Economic - There&#x27;s no discrimination because they only want the cheapest labor possible.<p>Culture - They want a consistent culture so, of course, they mostly hire Indians &quot;because they work harder&quot;- paraphrasing from another comment.<p>Language - It&#x27;s easier to have everyone speak the predominant language of the company. Never mind that it&#x27;s not the same language as the country its operating in.<p>Now, if a predominately white company used these same reasons to explain their lack of minorities there would be an uproar. And rightfully so.

&quot;While roughly 1% of the US population is of the South Asian race and national origin, roughly 93%-94% of Infosys’s United States workforce is of the South Asian national origin (primarily Indian). This disproportionately South Asian and Indian workforce, by race and national origin, is a result of Infosys’s intentional employment discrimination against individuals who are not South Asian, including discrimination in the hiring, promotion, compensation, and termination of individuals.&quot;<p>What kind of argument is this? When the time to elect the 100th president comes, should all non-South Asian candidates be excluded from the start? (Assuming no South Asian is elected until then. And by then the 1% might have changed, of course).

The only people Infosys discriminates against is people who don&#x27;t like to be underpaid.

From the article:<p>&quot;While roughly 1% of the US population is of the South Asian race and national origin, roughly 93%-94% of Infosys’s United States workforce is of the South Asian national origin (primarily Indian).&quot;

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This is completely off topic, but did anyone else think that the guy in the headline picture totally looked like an indian version of Mr. Bean?<p>The facial expression, the eyebrows, the haircut, everything!

The term &#x27;racism&#x27; should be socially banned, because of it&#x27;s misuse and because it can mean so many things. Basicly racism only exists as an combat term.

Why not just let them hire whoever they want? I&#x27;m seriously tired of people sticking their noses into everything.