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India will not get anywhere meaningful as long as this institutionalized discrimination persists. "backward", really ? are we in the 21st century ?
by momirlan 3y ago
India will not get anywhere meaningful as long as this institutionalized discrimination persists.
"backward", really ? are we in the 21st century ?
- elil17 3y agoIndian English is not the same as American English. As I understand it, "backwards" means "disadvantaged" in this context. Perhaps you should prepone learning about English dialects.
- momirlan 3y agosorry, not American here. "backwards" means the same thing in any other type of English. I will "prepone" it... lol
- howinteresting 3y agoWhat exactly is your point then? It's just another word for "disadvantaged", "underprivileged" or "oppressed".
- lucb1e 3y agoAnd it just happens to have a more commonly known negative meaning? They could have picked disadvantaged or oppressed, instead, for that acronym. I had little-to-no idea about this system until today and I'm not even a native english speaker, but all the same it seems curious to me that this word choice is just a coincidence...
- howinteresting 3y agoWho could have picked those terms? OBC is a term of art used in Indian politics [1]. The author didn't exactly choose that term. And OBC is Indian English, which is one of the most common varieties of English spoken worldwide. I think it's really weird when people say "carpetbagger" in American politics, definitely more weird than OBC. And don't get me started on the racist origins of "grandfathered in" or "eenie meenie miney moe". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Backward_Class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Backward_Class
- momirlan 3y agonot really, you're stretching it
- howinteresting 3y agoIn Indian English it's another word for disadvantaged. Indian English has, by number of speakers, more of a claim to be standard English than British English.