> lawsuit found that 67% of Dalits surveyed felt treated unfairly at their U.S. workplaces.
I'm more surprised 67% of Dalits would have coworkers knowing their caste. Can someone give context on how this happens?
I'm more surprised 67% of Dalits would have coworkers knowing their caste. Can someone give context on how this happens?
Is this because people from a specific caste tend to concentrate in a specific geographic region?
I've learned as a Westerner that there's no model I've grown up with that's really the best for making sense of India as someone who wasn't born there. What makes the most sense to me is what an Indian colleague told me - "think of it as the United States of Europe -- that many languages, that much diversity, that much complexity and problems."
In old Indian kingdoms, there were warriors, priests, teachers, business people, janitors etc. The caste system basically puts a social value on each of these with priests (who were also teachers) being at the top.
The problem is, you couldn't just choose to be a priest.. or a warrior.. or a janitor. You were born into the profession. You were a janitor because your father was a janitor and his father before him.
Discriminating based on caste for the purposes of education, work, government services, etc.. has been outlawed in the Indian constitution since 1948. It still happens, because people are people, but less so with each generation.
Its similar to black people having white sounding to avoid being skipped over while applying for jobs.
Yeah, it might take you longer to figure out if someone was from Florida or California, but that would probably come out relatively quickly in how they talk about beaches.
Humans group and identify others (often wrongly) really quickly.