Hey carl, I was having this conversation the other day with a friend when discussing this case.
To look at everything in India through the lens of caste for India is the equivalent of using terrorism to understand everything about Muslim societies.
Corruption, connections, class privilege, regionalism, gender, language dominance and caste, among all the other myriad motivators of human behavior, matter too. It's not that caste doesn't have an importance but the world is rapidly changing and with the migration of people from rural to urban areas and the rise of NGO activists of all types with that migration comes a very complicated and dizzying perspective of change.
I can assure, those with more money lord it over those with less caste or no caste. A sense of privilege is complicated business. Why this mistake seems to keep occuring in American media of either a left or right variety is a surprise to me....
Sorry for the lecture but you know me
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