Caste matters : Dalit student attacked by caste Hindu students for laughing inside bus in Tamil Nadu, India
Caste matters : Dalit student attacked by caste Hindu students for laughing inside bus in Tamil Nadu, India
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Dalit student attacked by caste Hindu students for laughing inside bus in Tamil Nadu
In another case of caste-based violence among school students in Tamil Nadu, more than 20 caste Hindu students belonging to the Urali Gounder community attacked a Dalit student and his grandmother in Karur district on Saturday, August 26, for laughing inside a bus.
This is the third such attack in the state in 20 days.
Indian people will also bring their caste system with them when living in the United States. Here's a news article about it happening in Silicon Valley.
It's wild that even when a country is (mostly) racially homogeneous, humans will find the most minute differences (imagined or otherwise) to discriminate.
Indians discriminate within their own families between those who have fairer skin & darker skin tones. The experiences that Black people have in India are very different from those experienced by White people. You can find out by asking around in travel forums
We are extremely racist, classist, and casteist, but are good at pretending not to be while living in developed countries.
I was married into a TamBram family, and after a while you can just clock Iyers vs Iyengars (which is a hyperfine distinction if there ever was one). It's based on names, differences in pronunciation, items of jewelry... Those are like the differences between a Londoner and somebody from Oxford.
But a Bengali or a Gujurati? They look totally different, like the difference between Connor McGregor and Al Pacino.
India is a BIG place, it has only ever been unified as an empire, never as a nation.
It's part of human nature at this point.
Very few people are able to rise above it.
I can't help but notice, the lesser nations are on the world scale, the more they hate each other over stupid shit.
It's like, instead of putting people down in India because they can't compete with the US, they should be building them up. But they need to feel superior to someone, and white people are out of the question so they just shit on each other.
It's disgusting and parents and children are to blame.
"If Hindus migrate to other regions on earth, Indian caste would become a world problem" - Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Wish I could read it but it's paywalled
Removed paywall : https://archive.ph/luzbQ