Thursday, January 21, 2016

What forms of caste discrimination, diluted racism, and class discrimination are found in Indian society?

What forms of caste discrimination, diluted racism, and class discrimination are found in Indian society?


Subtle discrimination in government institutions

  • no proactive efforts or media campaign to promote benefit schemes to poor, illiterate, needy dalits. Many schemes are not used up at all, they don't know about it. Tacit delays and deny based on paper work.
  • setting high criteria for admissions. It can't be cracked without 3-7 years of private coaching that can't be afforded by poor - economic exclusion. This is used in avilification campaign by comparing scores.

Discrimination in Schools, Colleges and Jobs
  • made to wash toilets, vessels in primary schools
  • segregation in schools (asked to sit behind)
  • punished with lower-grades in colleges by upper-caste profs - AIIMS, IITs
  • mobbing and peer abuse in education institutions and jobs
  • forced to do menial jobs - scavenging, sewage, animal clearing
  • ignored for promotions
  • largely ignored in private sectors 
Internet Propaganda
  • prejudiced internet propaganda about dalit success 
  1. if dalits are successful         - misuse  - end affirmative action
  2. if dalits are not successful  - lowers quality - end affirmative action
  • hate crimes , abusive, hostile cyber-bullying. 
Social Discrimination
  • rapes and murders to avenge inter-caste disputes - land, marriages
  • entry into temples
  • separate cups/vessels for lower-caste
  • not being allowed to use cycles, slippers within upper-caste ghettos
  • religious practices - made to roll over left-overs eaten by brahmins
  • subtle discrimination - based on surnames, caste symbols and color
  • social acceptance in marriages 
Update
  • listing down problems of the dalit community creates better understanding - not widen cracks.
“Let them eat cake” (  is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was a luxury bread enriched with butter and eggs, the quote would reflect the princess's disregard for peasants. )  - attitude to caste-discrimination is the reason for the cracks.

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