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One of the most striking contrasts I have seen in a long time was framed in a photograph accompanying an intriguing news story on Seattle becoming the first US city to ban discrimination based on caste.
As the BBC said in its report on the city council vote: “Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, who wrote the legislation, said the fight against caste bias ‘is deeply connected to the fight against all forms of oppression’. Advocates of the ban say it is needed to prevent caste bias from becoming more prevalent in the US. The caste system in India [it has been banned since 1948] dates back over 3,000 years and divides Hindu society into rigid hierarchical groups.”..
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