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What is caste discrimination, and why does it need to be banned in the US?

Por: WPTV Nation April 13, 2023

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In recent weeks, there have been efforts to outlaw what's known as caste discrimination in the U.S. became the first city to ban caste discrimination in February. Now California may add caste as a protected category to its state law, becoming the first state to make discrimination based on caste explicitly illegal. What exactly is this caste system? Purnima Dhavan, a history professor at the University of Washington who specializes in the... + full article



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