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My 2 cents about my experience in growing up in rural central India, which hosts several major Scheduled Tribes (Adivasis) and Neo-Buddhists (erstwhile dalits).

My 2 cents about my experience in growing up in rural central India, which hosts several major Scheduled Tribes (Adivasis) and Neo-Buddhists (erstwhile dalits). * Modern caste system isn't the same as the one in 19th, 18th and 17th Century. Different groups climbed up and down the ladder, aided by the socio-political movements. * The modern version of caste is more about social prestige, and status. In my experience whenever people were curious about my caste it was to know what tribe you belong. Just like people asked me regularly where I was "actually" from in EU and US. * A lot of rural Indians aren't well versed with the metropolitan western concept of egalité, because the Dharmic system functions differently. This means the closest frame of reference is the caste system to know one's place in the pecking order. Same structures can be found in Japan and Korea. * The Dalits are a formidable political force now and a lot of caste based discrimination is done by non-Brahmins who fear the reduction of their share of the pie. I've seen brahmins being on receiving end of the caste based discrimination, countless no. of times. * Caste system in corporate world is cloak-and-daggers game and goes hand in hand with using language, region, culture etc to further their aims. A Marathi Kunbi might be favoured by a Marathi manager over a Bengali Kayastha. * I studied in a Govt. college which has more than 50% seats reserved for SC/ST/OBC/NT and I have first hand experience that caste is not an indicator of talent.

8589934591 6y ago
> The Dalits are a formidable political force now and a lot of caste based discrimination is done by non-Brahmins who fear the reduction of their share of the pie. I've seen brahmins being on receiving end of the caste based discrimination, countless no. of times. This is a point I feel many people miss out. The non brahmin upper castes are never pointed out in the discussions related to caste discrimination. Somehow it's always the brahmins vs lower caste. As if there are no "upper" castes apart from brahmins. For example, in Tamil Nadu, there are a lot of non Brahmin upper castes namely nadar, vanniyar, mudaliyar, thevar, gounder, kallar, vellalar, naikkar, chettiar, reddy and many more. These non brahmin upper castes spew the misinformation that brahmins are the reason for caste discrimination when they themselves practice it. They would advocate that their (non brahmin) community should marry a brahmin girl to show superiority since male > female. But the same community would oppose, even use violence to prevent marriages between themselves and a "lower" caste, esp if the girl is from the "higher" and the boy is from a "lower" caste. These are the same hypocritical retards who keep saying brahmins are the only ones who show caste discrimination. People should start noticing and acknowledging this aspect of discrimination too esp since they are the majority of the population who drive the narrative.

8589934591 6y ago

> The Dalits are a formidable political force now and a lot of caste based discrimination is done by non-Brahmins who fear the reduction of their share of the pie. I've seen brahmins being on receiving end of the caste based discrimination, countless no. of times. This is a point I feel many people miss out. The non brahmin upper castes are never pointed out in the discussions related to caste discrimination. Somehow it's always the brahmins vs lower caste. As if there are no "upper" castes apart from brahmins. For example, in Tamil Nadu, there are a lot of non Brahmin upper castes namely nadar, vanniyar, mudaliyar, thevar, gounder, kallar, vellalar, naikkar, chettiar, reddy and many more. These non brahmin upper castes spew the misinformation that brahmins are the reason for caste discrimination when they themselves practice it. They would advocate that their (non brahmin) community should marry a brahmin girl to show superiority since male > female. But the same community would oppose, even use violence to prevent marriages between themselves and a "lower" caste, esp if the girl is from the "higher" and the boy is from a "lower" caste. These are the same hypocritical retards who keep saying brahmins are the only ones who show caste discrimination. People should start noticing and acknowledging this aspect of discrimination too esp since they are the majority of the population who drive the narrative.