Re:Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination
by fmajid on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:00AM
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The caste system exists outside India. In Japan, people who were falconers, butchers, leather workers and other "ignoble" or "cruel" professions under Buddhism were branded as untouchables, burakumin in Japanese, sometimes also eta or hinin, literally meaning "subhuman". Somehow the lord who employed the falconer was not cruel or ignoble, funny how things work out...
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Re:Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination
by rajup on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:06AM
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Exactly, but note how everyone associates the word “caste” with “Hindu” or “india”. Makes the problem worse and nothing good can come out of it.
Re:Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination
by 22SAS on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @01:52PM
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The issue is that Americans with half-baked knowledge think that all Indians have a caste assigned to them, or that India has a national level caste allocation policy. For Americans who hate India, this gives them more ammo to hate us.