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And yet currently in India there are active movements that are trying to get “lower caste” tag just to get the benefits of reservation even though they are comf
by aicaffeinelife 3y ago
And yet currently in India there are active movements that are trying to get “lower caste” tag just to get the benefits of reservation even though they are comfortably well off.
So don’t try to potray things as black and white and reduce a particular religion to one concept and unidimensional like other Abrahamic faiths. Which btw are pretty much black and white and have more stringent concept of what’s human and what’s not (for instance branding women witches and burning them alive).
- pkphilip 3y agoI am from the so-called upper caste myself. I know how the upper castes keep whining about reservations for the lower castes that is available to them now - but they had absolutely no issues with getting defacto "reservations" for 1000s of years. And can you please stop blaming other belief systems for faults in your religion and culture?
- nostrebored 3y agoI don't see how this really interacts with the parent comment. In practicality caste has been an immutable construct, and is currently the basis of much discrimination. I don't think anyone is saying that the single defining feature of India is caste. But it is an oddity to see people defend a concept that the vast majority of the world would define as unjust.
- pkphilip 3y agoCaste oppression is actually seeing a revival in India