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The caste system shouldn't be tolerated, however it's difficult to dictate to communities.
Britain has a significant Nepalese community, however they tend to be former soldiers who served with the Gurkha Rifles, who have now settled here, and there is usually a shared regimental brotherhood rather than any time of caste system.
The Gurkha's are well liked and highly respected in Britain.
The gurkha's are fairly legendary bad-arses. One WW2 Brit colonel said that if a many tells you they are not afraid to die they are either lying or a gurkha.
There is a new movie on Netflix that covers that topic in India. Even in Japan there's a group of people who look just like any other Japanese who are discriminated against for some reason. Human nature I suppose.
The Ainu. No they don't look like all other Japanese. They're a very primitive tribe that's lived on their island for several thousand years before the ancestors of the modern Japanese ever showed up. Only a couple thousand left, but finally starting to get some recognition and legal standing, but they have a long way to go yet.
In Japan, anyone not Japanese is Gaijin. Up until Commodore Perry opened up Tokyo harbor at the point of a cannon, any Japanese that had interacted with a Gaijin would be beheaded upon return to Japan so the nation wouldn't be tainted by foreign thought.
No surprise here. The majority South Asians Hindus that immigrate to the U.S. come from higher castes and bring their beliefs regarding caste with them. It’s also interesting that the most revered South Asian Hindu (Mahatma Gandhi) actually fought to keep Untouchables (Dalits) in their place.
Ghandi also has some disturbing thoughts on black people, especially black Africans, for a significant portion of his life.
Obviously the caste system in India is slowly evolving given a Dalit can be educated and eligible for jobs, formerly limited to higher castes, let alone receiving a coveted green card.
It’s challenging to determine based on limited information if this guy is being discriminated against or if he is challenged to get along and is pulling the victim card.
Having said this, there tends to be a strong pecking order amongst Asian immigrants/ dependents with Chinese at the top and Filipinos and Indonesians at the bottom and then within each culture. It seems too many people all over the world derive their self esteem by looking down on others and sometimes in reverse.
The Ainu. No they don't look like all other Japanese. They're a very primitive tribe that's lived on their island for several thousand years before the ancestors of the modern Japanese ever showed up. Only a couple thousand left, but finally starting to get some recognition and legal standing, but they have a long way to go yet.
In Japan, anyone not Japanese is Gaijin. Up until Commodore Perry opened up Tokyo harbor at the point of a cannon, any Japanese that had interacted with a Gaijin would be beheaded upon return to Japan so the nation wouldn't be tainted by foreign thought.
Sound Familiar.....???
He’s not talking about the Ainu, but the Burakumin, the Ainu are as you said a separate ethnic group, most Burakumin are Japanese. Also theirs Okinawans as well as the far Southern minority.
Prem Pariyar believed he had left caste oppression behind when he moved from Nepal to the United States.
Here, he would no longer be targeted as an “untouchable.”
But as a restaurant worker in the Bay Area, Pariyar said, he endured some of the same discrimination and exclusion he faced in his home country. He was ordered to chop up a large sack of onions in less than an hour, and when he had to share an apartment with other Nepali immigrants, he was barred from sharing a bedroom with those of a dominant caste.
Let me get this straight.
He left Nepal to get away from their caste system.
And when he got to the United States, first thing he did was.... move in with people from Nepal.
If you know people from the Asian Subcontinent, this should surprise no one. That’s why I just leave them alone for the most part. To bring that crap to this country is unconscionable.
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