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Comment by TeMPOraL

9 days ago

It's the other way around - it's racist if you're a US American, because in USA every problem is somehow ultimately called or blamed on racism.

Elsewhere in the world, we'd all it xenophobia, or Indophobia if one has something against Indian people specifically.

Though in this case, it's driven primarily by economic stereotypes, coming from the country becoming a cheap services outsourcing destination for the West, so there should be a better term coined for it. The anti-Indian sentiment in IT seems to be the services equivalent of the common "Made in China = cheap crap" belief, and because it applies to services and not products, it turns into discriminating people.

It is mainly because the majority of scammers that we hear about are Indian. I am not sure it has anything to do with xenophobia, whether they (or we) call it as such or not.