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- 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.
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."
Advocacy group Hindu American Foundation, which opposed the bill, agreed with Newsom and hailed the veto as a major win. The caste system 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. The Dalit community is on the lowest rung of the Hindu caste system and members have been treated as"untouchables." India outlawed caste discrimination over 70 years ago.
"Caste-oppressed Californians are here, and we deserve workplaces and schools free from discrimination and violence," Soundararajan said in her testimony in April in support of the bill.The 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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