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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by pretendscholar on Thursday June 02, 2022 @08:54PM (#31602781)
Sorry if this is a sensitive topic but why don't you just say you are a brahmin/christian/muslim? How would they know?
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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by tthun on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:13PM (#31602990)
Believe it or not .. casts are carried by Christian [0] and Muslim families converted generations ago .. upper cast by choice and forced on lower cast [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_among_South_Asi...

[1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kevins-murder-...

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