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Re:How To Be An Anti-Casteist by whimsicalism on Monday October 05, 2020 @12:03PM (#24688955)
Yes, it occurs across the board. Rather than asking me about it, just google "affirmative action in the US."

Given that 90% of people from India in SWE seem to be from higher caste (I don't really know the exact statistic but it is something like that), then it seems like the reservation is still needed.

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Re:How To Be An Anti-Casteist by drieddust on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:35PM (#24699648)
Caste system is not that simple for example Jats are under reservation in one state but considered upper caste in adjacent state and gets no reservation.

Yes Reservation is still needed. India is big and people who got oppressed under colonial rule would take a few generations more to come up.

Bigger issue is exploitation of caste lines for politics.

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