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Re:An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has t... by thegreenswede on Monday September 04, 2023 @12:54PM (#37382289)
It's absolutely not forgotten in India. Maybe openly talking about in terms of 'caste', sure. But I just visited India for over a month and it was extremely clear they bucket each other into groups. And it's also very alive here in the US. Recently a friend at an ivy league mentioned that an 'upper class' Indian refused to work with a lower class one for their lab's research. Just straight up said he would not interact with him. And this was at a western University!
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Re:An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has t... by Glyptodon on Monday September 04, 2023 @01:02PM (#37382383)
Something like that should be grounds for expulsion IMO.
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Re:An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has t... by thegreenswede on Monday September 04, 2023 @01:14PM (#37382537)
Impossible to prove tho. You can always just claim you don't like the person for other reasons. That's why this whole 'banning caste' stuff is mostly performative imo. People will just be hostile to each other but not be open with the reason.
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Re:An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has t... by Genghis_Khan on Monday September 04, 2023 @01:33PM (#37382785)
> You can always just claim you don't like the person for other reasons.

That's true. It's also true that there are plenty of professional contexts where people have to work together regardless of their personal feelings toward each other. Sometimes lives depend on it.

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Re:An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has t... by PrimeMcFly on Monday September 04, 2023 @12:58PM (#37382337)
> Recently a friend at an ivy league mentioned that an 'upper class' Indian refused to work with a lower class one for their lab's research. Just straight up said he would not interact with him.

Seems that Ivy League education is being wasted on your friend.

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