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[–]Nayenezgani 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

For example, I have nothing against regular indians, but there are some--what they call the lower castes I guess--who make children just to sell them into slavery at the earliest opportunity.

Indian "caste" is complicated because the word encompasses two separate concepts in their culture, varṇa and jâti. Varṇa is more of a religious categorization of different occupations while jâti consists of the hundreds of endogamous groups in India.

I would say that the worst places to be female in India include northwestern states like Haryana, which has one of the lowest female:male ratios in the world, or in one of the BIMARU states. Haryanvis tend to have an elevated proportion of Indo-Aryan Steppe pastorialist ancestry compared to people from less brutal states like Kerala, so they're more related to the people who likely contributed to the institution of varṇa in the first place.

Funnily enough, a lot of Indian liberals like to attribute Indian misogyny to "Brahmanical patriarchy" while OBCs/SCs/STs and "oppressed" groups like Muslims get a pass for almost anything. You might not have anything against "regular Indians", but it seems like some regular Indians do.

Edit: Messed up phrasing.