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Largest Hindu temple outside Asia opens in New Jersey built by 12,500 volunteers
- rapid_onset 3y agoBuilt by negligibly paid largely-lower caste workers imported from India on religious visas. I wonder what the status of the court case against them is.
- jaldhar 3y agoOutrageous. They should have used the well-paid, high social status and totally legal Central Americans who normally do construction in New Jersey amirite? Actually knowing how corrupt the construction industry is around here I would not be shocked if there was funny business going on. By the same token, shakedowns by “community activists” are also a thing. So who knows? Let the courts figure it out.
- ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y agoA sound bite from "Hindus for Human Rights" in an article about a Hindu temple? Really? Would NBC go around looking for sound bites on Jewish issues from an organization called "Jews for Human Rights" run by virulent anti-semites? This is typical of Western media reporting on Hindus and India. There can never be a single positive story about them without referring to snake charmers, sati, child marriage, toilets, hunger, poverty, caste, violence against minorities etc etc. The ignorance about who Dalits actually are is par for the course. Dalits are not part of the traditional jati/varna classification. To use a now-English term for their status in society, they were complete "outcastes." This ignorance is more appalling because the reporter has a South Indian name. Looks like another thoroughly deracinated Indian.
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- leosanchez 3y agoVenkatraman is most probably a Tamil name. Which of course is in south India
- EdwardDiego 3y agoThis reads like angels-dancing-on-a-needle level of semantic hairsplitting to justify the unjustifiable. "Dalit isn't a _traditional_ caste"... ...okay, but does that change how they're treated? And your personal attack on the author is the icing on the cake.