Caste matters : Dalit student attacked by caste Hindu students for laughing inside bus in Tamil Nadu, India
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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.
Wow. Like, none of them are white and all of them would be enslaved/executed if white supremacists got their way.
Crazy how they can't see that, lol.
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.
At the same time, I think it's a bit more fluid than that. You'll definitely have individuals who can pass for different ethnic groups. I'm South Indian and I can often pass for North Indian (especially because my name is typically North Indian).
"This is the city of Madras,
The home of the curry and the dal
Where Iyers speak only to Iyengars,
And Iyengars speak only to God." - Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős
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
In India, Dalits have been attacked and killed by the oppressor uppercastes for sporting a moustache, wearing sunglasses, riding a bike, etc.
A week back in Tamil Nadu, India, a Dalit student was attacked by his fellow students for studying well - https://www.newsclick.in/tn-dalit-student-attacked-studying-well-anti-caste-groups-ring-alarm. A group of high school students broke into his home and hacked him with a sickle.
Caste based crimes abound in India and caste-based discrimination is rife even among Indians outside India. A couple of months back in another state Madhya Pradesh, an Adivasi man was urinated on by a Brahmin member of the ruling political party, the BJP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvXxKI-e-40 (link to kbin post : https://kbin.social/m/worldnews/t/138318/Caste-Matters-a-Brahmin-member-from-the-ruling-party-BJP)
India has a law to fight casteist oppression and violence against Dalits & Adivasis called the Prevention of Atrocities against SC/ST Act. But those in charge of implementing this law are themsselves from the oppressor upper castes. So the law is rarely applied even though caste atrocities abound.
Laws preventing caste discrimnation, like this one and the one passed in Seattle, are essential to ensuing basic human dignity to all, Pro-Hindu groups oppose anti-discrimination efforts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/22/caste-discrimination-us-modi-visit-hindu?ref=upstract.com
https://time.com/6146141/caste-discrimination-us-opposition-grows/
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/seattle-caste-discrimination-proposal-kshama-sawant-indians-in-us-hindus-in-america-2338186-2023-02-22
Please support laws preventing caste discrimination!
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Right, cause why improve yourselves when you can just tear down others. That'll make India a superpower by 2020. Oh wait...
its now India - 15 Trillion economy by 2047!
just don't ask what currency the Trillion will be in.
Next generation of scumbags taking their place.