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Re:An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has t... by tremon on Monday September 04, 2023 @01:17PM (#37382577)
Maybe caste discrimination in the US is primarily a SE-Asian phenomenon, but there's plenty examples of caste systems in African nations as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_systems_in_Africa?useski...
Re:An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has t... by FreshStart on Monday September 04, 2023 @01:38PM (#37382869)
Question: Is social discrimination based on wealth via witchcraft banned? In Africa those who are entrapaneurial and socially stick out, get hammered in by traditional witchcraft religions..
Re:An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has t... by hef19898 on Monday September 04, 2023 @02:58PM (#37383715)
From what I read, it is rather "witches" that get hammered down, quite literally, instead of dpimg the hammering of poor entrepreneurs.
Re:An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has t... by red-iron-pine on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:07PM (#37395539)
Not just Africa, plenty of other places.

Japan comes to mind, e.g. the Burakumin aka Japanese Untouchables

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin

> Burakumin (部落民, 'hamlet/village people', 'those who live in hamlets/villages') is a term for ethnic Japanese people who are believed to be descended from members of the pre-Meiji castes which were associated with kegare (穢れ, 'defilement'), such as executioners, undertakers, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, and tanners...Due to severe discrimination and ostracism in Japanese society, these groups came to live as outcasts, in their own separate villages or ghettos. After the caste system was abolished, the term burakumin came into use to refer the former caste members and their descendants, who continued to experience stigmatization and discrimination.