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Seriously? What caste did your family belong to? I'm allowed to ask these questions; the Indian side of my family are Brahmins, and boy does it show! Most of u

by neilk 11y ago

Seriously? What caste did your family belong to? I'm allowed to ask these questions; the Indian side of my family are Brahmins, and boy does it show! Most of us walked straight from the lawyer/doctor/accountant/businessperson class in India into the lawyer/doctor/accountant/businessperson class in the USA and Canada. Sure things were difficult, but most of us had huge advantages.

refurb 11y ago
I'm curious, why would your caste matter in the US?
- kelukelugames 11y ago
  Because classism is a thing. So is legacy of privilege. Literally all of my Indian co workers have been Brahmin.
  - walshemj 11y ago
    Agree I know one of the MPs in the UK who help get caste discrimination added to the discrimination laws.
    - tn13 11y ago
      This is mostly a Christian missionary driven attempts to marginalize Hindus even further by painting them as evil. From the sense I get it wont go anywhere.
      - walshemj 11y ago
        Err what re you smoking? it was Asian MP's that piloted the bill through parliament.
        tn13 11y ago
        Yup they are the agents of missionaries in their countries. Look at Bobby Jindal he is asian per say but in reality a hard core christian.
    - known 11y ago
      We have petitioned President Obama to Expel Brahmin from USA https://wh.gov/iyhMK https://wh.gov/iyhMK
- tn13 11y ago
  Not sure about the above comment but here are my 2c. I belong to Brahmin caste. I always thought caste did not matter in USA until I recently attended a seminar by a self proclaimed India expert Christian priest. The Christian missionaries are trying to convince various governments across the world to recognize "caste" as serious discrimination probably to malign Hinduism to further their conversion business in India. I brushed it off thinking it must be some fringe group. After few days a lady showed up at my place asking my wife to narrate the horrors she had to face back in India because of her lower caste (my wife happens to have a lastname generally associated to lowest of low castes in India). It took us a while to understand what was happening.
tn13 11y ago
I am a brahmin and my father was a poor farmer in India. The kind of poor you read in newspapers. I completed my education mostly on borrowed money from friends and relatives and through community scholarships. Now that I am in USA I realize half of my struggles in India were result of government control and government attempts to make things "equal" for everyone rather than just letting best people succeed. USA on the other hand is much better.

by neilk 11y ago

refurb 11y ago

I'm curious, why would your caste matter in the US?

kelukelugames 11y ago
Because classism is a thing. So is legacy of privilege. Literally all of my Indian co workers have been Brahmin.
- walshemj 11y ago
  Agree I know one of the MPs in the UK who help get caste discrimination added to the discrimination laws.
  - tn13 11y ago
    This is mostly a Christian missionary driven attempts to marginalize Hindus even further by painting them as evil. From the sense I get it wont go anywhere.
    - walshemj 11y ago
      Err what re you smoking? it was Asian MP's that piloted the bill through parliament.
      - tn13 11y ago
        Yup they are the agents of missionaries in their countries. Look at Bobby Jindal he is asian per say but in reality a hard core christian.
  - known 11y ago
    We have petitioned President Obama to Expel Brahmin from USA https://wh.gov/iyhMK https://wh.gov/iyhMK
tn13 11y ago
Not sure about the above comment but here are my 2c. I belong to Brahmin caste. I always thought caste did not matter in USA until I recently attended a seminar by a self proclaimed India expert Christian priest. The Christian missionaries are trying to convince various governments across the world to recognize "caste" as serious discrimination probably to malign Hinduism to further their conversion business in India. I brushed it off thinking it must be some fringe group. After few days a lady showed up at my place asking my wife to narrate the horrors she had to face back in India because of her lower caste (my wife happens to have a lastname generally associated to lowest of low castes in India). It took us a while to understand what was happening.

tn13 11y ago

I am a brahmin and my father was a poor farmer in India. The kind of poor you read in newspapers. I completed my education mostly on borrowed money from friends and relatives and through community scholarships. Now that I am in USA I realize half of my struggles in India were result of government control and government attempts to make things "equal" for everyone rather than just letting best people succeed. USA on the other hand is much better.