http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC3C2voZjrA
Friends, I happen to see this video while browsing internet. Please watch this video recorded by young researchers trying to understand the caste. The views expressed by the non Dalits in the video are exactly what I hear while talking to people when I was in India or now in US- striking similarities of outright denials. In my experience, the results are the same when you talk to an ignorant illiterate or highly educated living in a western society. They see reservations (which is a big farce due to their ineffective implementation) and never see the social, economical, educational, and religious deprivations. They see them lazy, not the lack of opportunities. They see them as grabbers of opportunities, not their centuries of forceful oppression. While talking to whites about the discrimination they accorded to blacks till 1950s, I do not see whites denying the problem so forcefully. There may be some like skinheads, KKKs, Aryan nationals, but they are not in mainstream. But I observe the contrary in case of Dalit issue Indian non Dalits. I wonder, when a society doesn’t want to recognize a problem, is there a solution to it? Is it ignorance? Is it living in a make believe world of their own making? Is it closing eyes to problems of others? Or is it the desire of keeping them as they were? I puzzle! Thanks Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An educated man without character and humility was more dangerous than a beast. If his education was detrimental to the welfare of poor, he was a curse to society. -Babasaheb Dr B R Ambedkar Please visit www.friendsforeducation.org or www.ambedkarscholarship.org
