[sn41]

I truly sympathise. Hope you hang in there, and wish you all the best.

I can relate to some of this - when I post on math overflow, my questions are heckled for poor English - by French mathematicians, when the reality is that I grew up in India with English in schools from the age of 5, and completed my Ph. D in the US. The hidden condescension, emboldened by my verifiable physical presence in India (from the profile), turns the conversation _that little bit_ nastier than it should be. All the while, the responders evade the perfectly legitimate question entirely. The tone of the responses on mathoverflow, by identifiable researchers, is quite bad and has turned me off the whole thing to a large extent.

[andreakate]

It's disappointing (though not surprising) to hear your story about Math Overflow and your location. I think the more we talk about it the more aware people will be so thank you for sharing.

The scientist in me also finds your experience very interesting. For the most part we think of these online platform as "anonymous" because we aren't conversing face to face. Yet our biases find other ways to creep in, often unnoticed.