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These sort of class distinctions are much less pronounced in America, which is why so many oppressed or impoverished people from elsewhere yearn to travel here
by INvidiA 9y ago
These sort of class distinctions are much less pronounced in America, which is why so many oppressed or impoverished people from elsewhere yearn to travel here and make a new life. It's nice to hear about someone who was able to realize the American Dream and escape the class prejudice of their home country.
- goutham2688 9y agohttps://www.thenewsminute.com/article/when-caste-follows-you-overseas-ostracism-discrimination-among-south-asians-us-78431 https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/when-caste-follows-you... Indians who are deemed lower caste are converting to Christianity to escape the tag.
- cscurmudgeon 9y agoHilarious since Indian versions of Christianity have caste.
- dharmach 9y agoWhen societies/individuals achieve high status and realize self-worth, they usually develop a generous and liberal disposition (not a bad thing). Unfortunately, when the position is threatened, they may go back to the survival mode and become intolerant.
- INvidiA 9y agoThat is very true. Also when societies/individuals don't have a long history they haven't had a chance to accumulate modes of thinking from the past that are no longer deemed appropriate but are difficult to shake off once acquired.
- Lambdanaut 9y agoIn Freudian terms: when under threat, people develop a highly anal response. When at peace, they develop an oral response.
- retSava 9y agoThat might be the case, but the constant reminder of race is very weird to me. As in, it's very common to denote someone to be "black" or "white" or "hispanic" and so on. I can understand this to some extent when it comes to describing how someone looks (eg police warrant) but in most other contexts... it's just feels very strange with the obsession of what color/origin someone has/is.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoFunny how centuries of race based slavery and discrimination will do that.
- Retric 9y agoMost countries don't have a history of race based slavery. Rome, Inca, etc viewed conquest as the path to slavery. Even most American slaves where at the root captured by a different group in Africa rather than based on skin color. The race to slavery connection was more an accident of history than any design. Early America had some black slave owners and they imported from Africa because Native Americans tended to die from disease or escape.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoNew York is not part of the Roman or Incan empires last time I checked.
- Retric 9y agoYet, they also lack the deep institutionalized racial slavery connection. Despite what people think slavery is actually more expensive than providing subsistence level pay. Due to the constant immigration influx and institutions like indentured servitude slavery was never important to New York's economy and by avoiding the slavery trap they actually had much stronger economic growth. NYC did see slavery from 1655 (fist auction) to 1827 but issued a gradual emancipation act in 1799. Hardly hundreds of years of institutionalized slavery. Even before that there was various waves of freed slaves associated with the Revolutionary war. When black men made up one-quarter of the rebel militia in White Plains and where then freed after the war etc.