![]() In 2016, a survey conducted by Equality Labs concluded that one in four Dalit Americans experienced verbal or physical assault based on their caste and one in three Dalit students reported facing discrimination and micro-aggressions in US educational institutions.Īccording to the Center for Advanced Study on India at the University of Pennsylvania, only 1.5% of the US immigrants from India belong to Dalit communities while more than 90% belong to the dominant castes who come with their culture, socioreligious beliefs, and caste.Īs scholars of caste studies agree, caste is the central pillar of the Hindu social order therefore, caste and caste-based practices are very much part of the dominant castes’ behaviour and attitudes. Now, in the 21st century, caste has indeed become a social reality of the South Asian diaspora in the United States. Ambedkar predicted that caste could be a global problem. ![]() ![]() Ambedkar wrote an essay – C astes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development, in which he asserted, “I f Hindu (dominant castes) migrates to other regions on earth, Indian caste would become a world problem.” ![]() In 1916, while he was studying at Columbia University, Dr. ![]()
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