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by kevhito
2645 days ago
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> I became an Software Engineer and now live in a major city, thanks to the affirmative actions adopted by India... You mean from reservations in school / university admissions? Or does that even extend to private employment? Is there widespread resentment? I'm really curious about the parallels (or not) between racism in the US and caste in India, esp. affirmative action. The US never really went all-in on AA like India did with reservations -- more like pretending if we mostly ignore race then racism will go away -- but it seems like neither approach has really gotten to good place (yet). |
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> In this episode, I had a conversation with a middle-class Dalit who lives in Gujarat. For me, Dalits are people who are reported on, written on, people who I hear about spoken of (usually sympathetically). But I wanted to talk to a Dalit who was a university educated middle-class person, to zero in on the essential aspect of being SC in India today. At least urban India.
> One interesting observation is that his own experience in India is filled with slights, but not day to day oppression. It doesn’t seem the lot of Dalits in urban India is anything like that of black Americans during Jim Crow. He seemed to assume that America had solved much of its race problem and that that’s what Dalits should aspire to. Curiously, Americans at this point, at least on the Left, perceive our racial problems as dire.
https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/03/06/browncast-podcast-ep...
Podcast links https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/brown-pundits/id14390070...
http://brownpundits.libsyn.com/the-life-and-views-of-a-middl...
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/razib-khan/brown-pundits-po...
https://player.fm/series/brown-pundits/the-life-and-views-of...