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I don't know if the Indian caste thing should be considered obscure. There are 1.3 billion Indians. By number of people affected it might be one of the more imp
by fartcannon 4y ago
I don't know if the Indian caste thing should be considered obscure. There are 1.3 billion Indians. By number of people affected it might be one of the more important conversations in the world today.
- np_tedious 4y agoIt's "obscure" bc it is underappreciated in the US and probably most places outside of India
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- ZeroGravitas 4y agoI intended 'obscure' in the 'not easily understood' (to outsiders) sense, but probably an unfortunate word choice as it also means 'unknown'.
- zen_1 4y agoI think discussions of "obscurity" are always relative to the audience in question, so while I highly doubt caste discussions would reasonably be considered obscure in India (or within the Indian diaspora), I (a non-Indian) had certainly never heard of casteism abroad until I saw submissions on HN discussing it at Cisco.
- PhillyG 4y agoAgreed. "Region specific" might be a better term for what the commenter intended