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[-] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago

It's not socially acceptable anywhere in the urban places but in rural places it can a quite a problem.

I have lived my entire life in a urban city without any discrimination whatsoever, but I have also heard of rural places where they would literally burn people alive for intercaste marriage.

One of the main reasons it's not extinct yet is because people love to take "pride" in their caste. There are plenty of songs dedicated to "jatt" people, people of a higher caste. "Khatris" are often glorified in movies for fighting. You can see the problem is same as if white people started making songs on "being white and proud" and Britishers claiming victory in ww2 because they were "white". It's absurd and I have felt the pain but I am thankful for the present situation and I suppose it's better than being burnt alive haha.

Yes there is reservation and that's absurd too, imagine if "black" people were allowed reservation for jobs in government.

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

imagine if "black" people were allowed reservation for jobs in government.

I may be wrong but i think it exists in some universities ( student wise). I vaguely remember several article about it

[-] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

It's absurd if that's true. Who would in their right mind believe this solves any racism? If anything it creates more segregation about races. It's the social acceptance that minorities need not economic or education privilege. Sad times.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The idea was to have races mixed together better and not have people from historically discriminated races get stuck in poverty because of lack of education. So, they tried to make sure there were some of them getting university degrees. It's not completely absurd, but they just started it from the wrong end. They should have made sure the discriminated races who are underprevilleged had more help by helping all poor families, so their kids can focus on school better and it's fair for poor people of the historically oppressive race, too.

[-] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

It makes sense, I agree but speaking from personal experience from India where this positive discrimination called reservation exists, just leads to horrible segregation, it flares up every now and then in people. People from high castes always curse the lower ones for not getting their "supposed government job" that they should have gotten. Such measures should be entirely based on economic status and not some birth status. I say this because I know plenty of rich but lower caste people who have terribly exploited this system.

I also agree that in the end, matters relating to such birth statuses are complicated. If only humans could co exist all peacefully but alas.