I don’t believe he means Indians, when he says Asians. Using Oriental for Asians is a British idiom and not an American one.
He means Orientals, if you need me to use a word that makes sense to you. I can guarantee you that he’s not going to punish his fellow Indians to put DEI into practice. For Indians, racial quotas are useful to them to cut out economic competitors, like whites and Asians and allows him to primarily hire Indians.
Having had much to do with hiring tech professionals in the US, to the point of dealing with Indian subcontractors and H1b agencies - Indian=Asian, as far as HR was concerned.
Where I was the desired people were “underrepresented minorities”, which effectively meant black or hispanic.
Indians certainly werent underrepresented, and hiring them didnt meet any goals - I had lots. I even had a case of an intern who was a tribal Siberian native, who was probably as underrepresented a minority as one coukd imagine, but HR said no.
For decades (from the early 1990s) we also had contractor and vendor goals, “minority or woman owned” - aka meebie-weebies. No points for Indian or Chinese owned vendors. Most of those guys had the trick of putting in thir wives or mothers as the “owners”, so hey, it was all cool.
This is all BS of course, and everyone knew it.
“He means Orientals, if you need me to use a word that makes sense”
Thank you! Orientals.
I never knew Indians are “Asian”. Just like I’ve heard that Hispanics more are “White”. People need to quit monkeying around with what’s true.
Next week I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the the word, “Asian”, is offensive and taboo.
He means Indians when he says Asians — there are few other types of Asians in tech.
Nearly 80% or more of “Asians” in the IT space are Indians