SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council on Tuesday added caste to the city’s anti-discrimination laws, becoming the first U.S.
  •  imgprojts   ( @imgprojts@lemmy.ml ) 
    2•1 year ago

    Also what is that??? As per previous googling, it appears that indian people have different levels called caste which is not unlike the Hispanic caste levels in Mexico and Latin America. Basically they have their own “races” but those are less easy to distinguish to us newbies. In Mexico, you got levels of mestizo and levels of wealth distributed accordingly. Here in the US it’s getting murkier (good), but basically, you’re poor if you’re black just because you don’t get opportunity. At work I saw a good QA guy just self mutinize. He was great but kept pretending to be a victim and that shit was just so dumb. But then you got brown people like me or yellow asian people and finally the white guys. Probably at white level you also have some sort of levels depending on if you’re blonde, Jewish, Italian, German etc etc. It’s all bullshit. In my current company we’re actually pretty good at diversity. But still, at the top it’s just white people.

      •  imgprojts   ( @imgprojts@lemmy.ml ) 
        1•1 year ago

        Yes, that’s the assumption in my comment. Brown is also insulting to me if someone else is referring to me that way. So that’s my impression of the caste law just being a repetition of racism. Caste=Race it’s just another way to separate us by the way we look to others.

        •  altair222   ( @altair222@beehaw.org ) OP
          2•1 year ago

          Caste and Race have definitive difference between them tbh. One of the only things common between them, as you mentioned, is that it inspires xenophobia in a lot of people over essentialist arguments.