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A Boring Dystopia

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"beta" = "son" in Hindi and similar North Indian languages

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[–] puckpuckpuckow@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] lath@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Inbred sense of inferiority.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What does caste Hindu mean here? Was the son a lower caste or a higher caste than the man calling him beta?

[–] destructdisc@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Higher-caste. Dalit is the lowest caste in Hinduism

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Is caste a Hindu-specific thing? I thought it was more of an ignorant racist classist thing?

[–] destructdisc@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Caste originated in Hinduism. The concept has (slightly) bled over into other minority religions in the subcontinent due to cultural assimilation, but it's most deeply entrenched in Hinduism to this day and it shows up in absolutely horrific ways like this. There are hundreds of incidents like this across the country every day and a vast majority of them go completely unreported -- and that's not even accounting for microaggression that most folks either don't notice or choose to ignore because "that's just how things are".

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“The government’s attitude also appears casteist—Dalits are beaten, discriminated against, denied water from common wells, barred from entering temples, raped and even ‘die cleaning drains.’ And now, a Dalit has been beaten so brutally that it led to his death, yet the government remains silent. This is extremely unfortunate,” he said.

also,

wp:Dalit

[–] guy@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

Stratification of people are a wonderful idea