{"id":228723,"date":"2023-02-25T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=228723"},"modified":"2023-02-25T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:13:08","slug":"is-caste-discrimination-so-rampant-in-the-us-to-warrant-separate-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/is-caste-discrimination-so-rampant-in-the-us-to-warrant-separate-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Is caste discrimination so rampant in the US to warrant separate legislation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cIs caste discrimination so rampant in the US to warrant separate legislation?\u201d <\/strong>published in The Indian Express <\/strong>on 25th February 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Diaspora<\/p>\n

Relevance:<\/strong> Issues faced by Indian diaspora in US<\/p>\n

News-<\/strong> Recently, <\/strong>Seattle passed a resolution in its city council against caste-based discrimination in Indian American social life.<\/p>\n

What is the status and historical origins of the Indian diaspora in the US?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Indians are the second largest immigrant group<\/strong> in America after the Mexicans. They went there in the late 19th century, mainly as agricultural or railroad workers.<\/p>\n

In the early 20th century, Indian students started sailing to universities like the University of California and Cornell.<\/p>\n

Hindus were not always welcome in America in the initial years. There was a riot in Bellingham town near Seattle in September 1907 in which a mob white Americans attacked Hindus .<\/p>\n

The situation has reversed now. Indians in America are now the most desired immigrants<\/strong>. They are now professionals, earned riches, and nation\u2019s public life figures.<\/p>\n

Is caste discrimination a reality among Indian-Americans today or is it a design to malign the community?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are some vested interests<\/strong> with weak credentials and opaque funding sources<\/strong>. They lead this campaign against Indian-Americans.<\/p>\n

These include organisations like Equality Labs<\/strong>. It produced a controversial report on caste discrimination in workplaces in the US in 2018,<\/p>\n

There are enough federal and state legislations<\/strong> in the US that prohibit any form of discrimination based on national origin, ancestry, and ethnicity. Many transnational corporations too have strict guidelines<\/strong> with regard to such discrimination.<\/p>\n

The Carnegie report on \u2018Social Relations of Indian Americans\u2019<\/strong> suggests that more than half of all Indian-Americans do not identify with caste at all.<\/p>\n

It dismisses the Equality Labs survey. It actually says that Indian-Americans as a group are the second most discriminated<\/strong> against in America.<\/p>\n

Groups that champion caste discrimination are generally Hinduphobic<\/strong>. They are using this discrimination card to malign the Hindu religion.<\/p>\n

Singling out Indian-Americans in the name of caste discrimination is in itself a discriminatory approach.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What will be the impacts of such groups on Indian immigrants in America?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Their politics may harm the entire Indian-American community. Apple<\/strong> has included caste discrimination as one of the prohibited aspects of employee behaviour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Persons of Indian origin may have difficulties in getting jobs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cIs caste discrimination so rampant in the US to warrant separate legislation?\u201d published in The Indian Express on 25th February 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Diaspora Relevance: Issues faced by Indian diaspora in US News- Recently, Seattle passed a resolution in its city council against caste-based discrimination in Indian… Continue reading Is caste discrimination so rampant in the US to warrant separate legislation?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-228723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700790558,"cached_date":1704925743},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}