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You can always ask about someone's background, or look it up. Google suffered a backlash in Japan when they made ancient maps easy to find, as people feared it

You can always ask about someone's background, or look it up. Google suffered a backlash in Japan when they made ancient maps easy to find, as people feared it'd make it easy to connect them to frowned upon ancestry: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7514420&page=1 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7514420&page=1

huytersd 3y ago
You can’t look up this stuff, it’s too local and none of it is written down or relevant even if it was. Just families classifying families in their towns. Geography means nothing, families of most castes live right next to each other.
sachislife 3y ago
> You can always ask about someone's background, or look it up. Seems easy enough. There are only 4.6 Million possibilities to choose from. based on the number of subcastes Govt of India identified for a caste census in 2011. https://www.deccanherald.com/content/489752/socio-economic-census-2011-reveals.html https://www.deccanherald.com/content/489752/socio-economic-c...