Re:India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing
by crowf on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:08PM
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Somewhat unrelated, but how does someone know what cast you are from? If you move to a new place where no one knows you, can you just say that you are from the best caste?
Re:India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing
by sateesh on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:54AM
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Oh there are proxy questions and ways to figure that out, what is your full name, and the most widely used one is, "Are you a non-vegetarian ?". Almost unfailingly most of the landlords put these questions before renting out.
Re:India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing
by crowf on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:23AM
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I didn't realize that castes had different rules regarding meat eating. Thanks for informing me.
Re:India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing
by rramadass on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:19PM
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Absolutely not believable, at best an isolated anecdote. Urban India is the one place where "casteism" is almost irrelevant. Like everywhere else it is economic conditions that drive everything.
More specifically, it is in Southern India where "upper-caste Brahmins" are at the receiving end due to the long lived "Dravidian" movement.
I'm a Northerner of a so-called upper caste (but not a Brahmin). I had to move to Chennai (a Southern city) for a year. I was shocked when apartment-hunting there. At every "to let" apartment visit, I would soon be asked if I were a Brahmin. Then the person would let me know they were a Brahmin, and that they would only rent to Brahmins. Nope, didn't get a decent apartment in that city. It seems all the nice property there is cornered by Brahmins.