Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination

Re:Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination by jakelazaroff on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:56AM (#34897551)

Genetic differences don’t mean it’s not made up. It’s not like we studied people’s genes and went “hm yes you can divide this ethnic group into four subgroups, Science!” People made a system where they divided themselves, and over time that division resulted in some small but noticeable amount of genetic divergence.

But there are, like, trillions of different genetic differences between all of us, and you could draw totally different lines around people and find a genetic basis if you really wanted. The genetic basis is used to justify the arbitrary groups; the groups are not an emergent phenomenon of the genetics.

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Re:Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination by fmajid on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:50AM (#34898434)

You're confusing cause and effect. The genetics did not emerge from the castes, the castes were an effort to entrench through religion the superior social status of invaders who were a different group with distinct genetics. They were not imposed from within by a faction of a unified group that subsequently diverged.

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