After a unanimous City Council vote, caste and indigeneity are now protected categories in Fresno, California.
Fresno, California, has become the second city in the U.S. to ban caste discrimination, after the City Council voted unanimously on Thursday to incorporate two new protected categories into its municipal code.In the midst of a nationwide civil rights movement, led mostly by South Asian Americans who come from caste-oppressed backgrounds, local governments, business and institutions have been contending with the caste question. In February,U.S.
Caste systems, inherited social hierarchies most prominent on the Indian subcontinent, divide society into classes that define people's lives in many ways. Those born into lower classes say they face violence, a lack of social mobility, and exclusion, both in India and abroad in the diaspora.
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