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I didn't say it was the same, just that it's equally stupid and persists anyway. It's easy for Americans to look at caste systems in other cultures and see them
by roywiggins 5y ago
I didn't say it was the same, just that it's equally stupid and persists anyway. It's easy for Americans to look at caste systems in other cultures and see them as transparently silly, even though our own racial hierarchies can seem self-evidently real and serious to us.
- lsiebert 5y agoOne of the ways racial hierarchies persist in the US in the culture are taught they are normal, natural, deserved when they are instead being perpetuated by culture and institutions and those who benefit from them. The effects of discrimination serve to justify and/or perpetuate the discrimination. My take away from this is that there is nothing natural about one caste having an advantage in business, that success in any field has much more to do with who has financial and social capital than with what caste someone is.