Advocates hoped that California's bill passed by the state legislature to ban caste discrimination would make history as the first of its kind statewide law in the United States that could have a ripple effect in other states. However, Governor Gavin Newsom's veto has left them heartbroken.
Oct 8 - Advocates hoped that California's bill passed by the state legislature to ban caste discrimination would make history as the first of its kind statewide law in the United States that could have a ripple effect in other states. However, Governor
Angana Chatterji, a scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, said that caste discrimination has a "pernicious hold" that impacts South Asian communities in the United States and that the California bill "recognized the basic and fundamental right to equality for all who are targets of casteism."
U.S. discrimination laws ban ancestry discrimination but do not explicitly mention a ban on casteism. California's bill targeted the caste system in South Asian and Hindu immigrant communities by adding caste as a protected class to the state's existing anti-discrimination laws.is among the world's oldest forms of rigid social stratification. It dates back thousands of years and allows many privileges to upper castes but represses lower castes.
"Caste-oppressed Californians are here, and we deserve workplaces and schools free from discrimination and violence," Soundararajan said in herThe Indian diaspora is comprised of about 4.9 million U.S. residents who were either born in India or reported Indian ancestry or origin, the Migration Policy Institute said late last year. About a million of those reside in California.
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