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That's a good question. But as this is a way of maintaining social privilege and the people in power are the privileged ones, I imagine there is little effort
by dakial1 3y ago
That's a good question. But as this is a way of maintaining social privilege and the people in power are the privileged ones, I imagine there is little effort in actually changing the system.
They will say it's terrible etc, but no real actions will be taken.
Can someone from India confirm/refute my hypothesis?
- wobbly_bush 3y agoTwo points - legally, caste based discrimination is illegal. From a cultural aspect - cultural changes are much slower in non-western countries. For example, compare how quickly the culture around marijuana & same sex marriage changed in US, and the laws kept up. But similar change probably takes 10x longer in "older" cultures. As an analogy, the left wing party of India which is supposed to be liberal, opposed legalizing same-sex marriage[1]. This attitude extends to all issues of reform in the entire political class. [1] https://www.opindia.com/2021/09/377-decriminalisation-congress-party-stonewalled-process-for-years-supreme-court/ https://www.opindia.com/2021/09/377-decriminalisation-congre...