Every couple of months an article about caste is posted on HN. The article and the reactions are always the same.
* Shallow allusions to how caste dynamics = white-black dynamics in the US
* Any one in opposition = caste supremacist = hindu nationalism
* Belief that caste dynamics in the US = caste dynamics in rural India
I am going to buck my own trend of writing explanations about how western interpretations of issues faced by foreign civilizations are wrong. I will instead link to older comments [1] I have written before:
Choice quotes:
> Caste related pieces in the western press miss the entire context around 1st-world-discrimination among Indians. It annoys me to no end, because discrimination is still a major problem in certain communities. But, the western media has cast it onto their agonizingly shallow concept of privilege and bigotry.
> caste is not caste anymore. The nature of internal sharding, class division, and discrimination in the diaspora has its own patterns that don't abide by caste lines.
I have some strong suspicions on why caste has suddenly become a major issue in California politics over the last decade. I know better than to talk about on a pseudo-anonymous account.
* Shallow allusions to how caste dynamics = white-black dynamics in the US
* Any one in opposition = caste supremacist = hindu nationalism
* Belief that caste dynamics in the US = caste dynamics in rural India
I am going to buck my own trend of writing explanations about how western interpretations of issues faced by foreign civilizations are wrong. I will instead link to older comments [1] I have written before:
Choice quotes:
> Caste related pieces in the western press miss the entire context around 1st-world-discrimination among Indians. It annoys me to no end, because discrimination is still a major problem in certain communities. But, the western media has cast it onto their agonizingly shallow concept of privilege and bigotry.
> caste is not caste anymore. The nature of internal sharding, class division, and discrimination in the diaspora has its own patterns that don't abide by caste lines.
I have some strong suspicions on why caste has suddenly become a major issue in California politics over the last decade. I know better than to talk about on a pseudo-anonymous account.
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...