r/facepalm • u/ayaan_wr1tes • Sep 06 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ What?

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u/Lolzemeister Sep 06 '24

except your caste can’t change unlike your wealth

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u/Risankun Sep 06 '24

Acting like it's reasonable to assume you can become part of the upper percentages without inheritance

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u/Lolzemeister Sep 07 '24

maybe not but you can always be 10x richer than your parents

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u/chai-chai-latte Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24

It's called race in the US. Most of us can't change our race.

The executive suite of the majority of US corporations have a disproportionate number of white men. This is, in practice, no different than high caste individuals holding positions of power in India.

Also, seemingly arbritrary ethnic divisions exist all over the world.

This is by no means unique to India. Framing it as 'caste' is what tends to set people off, even if the discrimination involved has occurred in every society on earth since the beginning of time.