In INDIA we have the “scheduled caste” of the UNTOUCHABLES or the Dalits. Of course law and administration are trying to work versus this old rites of discrimination. They established quotes to support those people avoiding racism. But ignoring the law and rules of modern democracies locals are still making trouble against the “untouchables”. INDIA has, after CHINA, the second largest population in the world. Sometimes wise leaders in the history and even in the present. Nevertheless we have to hope, that they succeed there to leave some low moral levels of medieval times.
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Caste is a form of racism. It is in fact worse then racism because it believes that people are born unequal! The government has not enforced the anti-caste laws because it is political. See this article http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/is-caste-indias-brand-of-racism/
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thanks, Rita Banerji in Calcutta, for your insider informations! And as I read:
“Untouchable” of course is used not as in “fragile” or “delicate,” but as in “I think you are filthy like the rats” …
I remembered, that you are not only a very courageous political activist, but a good essayist too …
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you wrote:
… in villages if a low caste person drinks from an upper caste well the whole clan is punished through rape and murder and their homes are burnt down…
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I wouldn’t believe it, but I saw a documentation in German television NDR-channel, and they told the same, presenting many interviews with witnesses …
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related:
interview with rita banerji:
http://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/feminist-artist-soraya-nulliah-interviews-rita-banerji/#comment-1106
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Yep… so the invisible people are truly global.
Eliz
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related:
flood victims, Pakistan:
http://www.life.com/gallery/52491/image/ugc1145021/2010-pictures-of-the-year#index/12
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related: attacked and injured woman
http://www.life.com/gallery/52491/image/ugc1145021/2010-pictures-of-the-year#index/29
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