As a south Asian professional, does anyone feel the hatred or bias or lack of opportunities directed toward you in the workplace?

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Desi is honestly way overrepresented.

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Given there is no shortage of desi partners, managing partners in any consulting firm and tech is dominated by people from that region - I feel over represented than hated . But then my experience is limited to those two industries.

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Nope

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Yes and no. Hatred has not been my experience. But I have observed bias. Typically manifesting as offering technical opportunities my way but not necessarily more business/strategic related ones, etc.

Will also flag that there are differences between immigrant/native Desis and those that are descendants of immigrants, differences based on region of South Asia, etc. but we’re often treated as a monolith

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Been working in the US for 15 years now and I have never felt that.

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