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Comment by strangesmells02 | Hacker News Reader

How populated with Indian people is California if statewide legislation is being written for this?

Wikipedia says

"California is about 1.3% Indian, with many living in Orange County and Santa Clara County. Many live in Yuba City, about 15% Indian, which has a significant Sikh community."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Americans_in_Californi...

More that the population of 5 US states. Interesting.

The Bay Area is around 6%, on the same order of magnitude as people of Chinese (10%), black (6%), Filipino (5%) or Jewish (4.5%) ancestry in the Bay. Depending on exactly how you group things, they're the 4th (after white non-Hispanic, Hispanic, and Chinese) largest Bay Area ethnic group. (src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area#/media/...)

Caste discrimination is not limited to the Indian population. As a matter of fact, ancestral caste is not a concept introduced by Hinduism or Indian culture (look up "varna", which is native to Hinduism and is not necessarily assigned by ancestry).

The word "caste" itself derives from the Portuguese words "casta".

Oh I didnt realize in modern times numerous cultures practiced the caste system. I thought it was just the Indian people.

What other cultures in modern times practice the caste system?

Sorry Im not knowledgeable about such things.

About 900k according to Wikipedia.

Wow so Cali has a higher Indian population than the population of 5 U.S. states.

Guess it makes sense that they have Indian specific legislation.

As the Cali Indian population grows I imagine more will begin to enter politics and well see more Indian related legislation.

Interesting.

https://www.statsamerica.org/sip/rank_list.aspx?rank_label=p...

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