that i take my dog with one hand while i eat a pork chop with the other. what is the alternative and how does it taste? it's like the real thing. yes. will we all be beginning 50 years? i see new very shoes, strong arguments to keep hunting animals, a documentary series about the future of food with the great debate this week on t w. b . this is did have been news asia coming up to date, acting against cost to prejudice. ah, that's years in seattle of the 1st city in the united states to bad guys, discrimination, but others of the south asian diaspora are upset. we look at why ah,

i british manager, welcome to did of the news asia. glad you could join us. last month's joking became the 1st city of the united states to band cost based discrimination. the band with applied things like employment, housing, and public transport. the car system, originally born out of ancient hindu scriptures, continues to hold sway across much of south asia and the diaspora. originally a system of ordering society along the lines of profession, it soon moved into an instrument of social division and control. one is bought into a cast and there is little scope for movement out of it. upper costs have also traditionally had greta access to education and opportunities. why lower costs less? so to the point that some like done, it's face near complete social exclusion gas distribution is brandon india,

but seattle has now become the 1st your city to do so. oh, it's an historic moment for the american south asian diaspora as the seattle council votes to add cost to the cities, anti discrimination laws. a 1st outside of south asia where you would saudi against go cost drivers in the name of reserving cultural in the name of reserving our language. so the, all these things are being preserve, you know, all the things that practiced the law allows us to know, speak, talk about things that go wrong without god is a futile conclusion on people do not want to talk about many support. is it? see, she whole would doll it, the lowest grouping in the cost hierarchy. in their 2016 survey, a dollop. civil rights organization found that one quarter of respondents in the us

had experienced physical o verbal abuse because of their cost. and 2 thirds said they had been treated unfairly at work supported say without the band there's no protection under existing civil rights laws. the ban was proposed by kashana. so want the only indian american on the council. she says it will account for discrimination across national and religious lines. oh. 7 but some hindu american groups have been fighting against it. they say it singles out their minority communities and that it could increase prejudice against south asians. so we, i feel for the big a long haul. i to make sure that be perfect. our in the human rights as well as our culture and traditions like all other indigenous traditions across the one coast for specific cost discrimination laws have been growing in the us. and some universities have already implemented the activity. now, once this,

when in seattle to spread across the country, instances of cost discrimination across the us. i've been hard to track before the seattle ordinance nor city legally recognize the practice as discrimination. but angels have tracked instances. and before the ordinance went toward in the seattle city council, it received emails from people who either faced or seen such discrimination 1st hand. here is what one tech professional said. i have many friends and colleagues. he will never have any candidate who has been a beneficiary of affirmative action for a job in that company, no matter how much experience they have. this comes from their deep rooted hatred of divers from the so called low a cast and not from ignorance of how affirmative action works. and that's just one

way cost this relation manifest itself in the diaspora. in the united states. recent years, i've seen a greater recognition of this practice prompting action from some of the leading universities in the country. this includes california state university, which last year at a cost as a protect category. and you see davis and harvard introducing policies to protect against cost discrimination. gentlemen, offer moist jargon. nothing is a board member of the coalition of hindus, of north america. one of the groups against this ordinance is you're not going break. and why is your organization opposed to legal protections against cost discrimination? the article is because seattle and dell has no data on any cost discrimination in seattle or around united states. so the be seeing how long did you fix the people reciting in seattle on the basis of no data?

and let me just share with you what it comes to member. oh, was in a conversation with somebody protesting outside ask the question. there is no data . hawaii doing this and she said, could they opposition is saying there's no data and it's are anecdotal, but that's how you start. you build your data anecdotes. i mean, what kind of an ecosystem is there? so there is a lot wrong legacy because of the law because it's racist. it's discriminatory because it targets one single community, which is a he mostly out against. so by trying to stop discrimination, causing discrimination for a subset of the population. there's a number of things you've said, let's talk about that. no data point when you say that there is no data. are you saying that cost discrimination does not happen in the united states? well, i don't want to get to going to really say that my good is no evidence that has a single, there is an old, not even one single group code of conduct discrimination. anyone in the united

states, not even there will not be an official report. remember, every man because carters termination has not been grounded in law does not. and there is no legal precedent for it, which is why you do not have any legal reports. but you do have a lot of anecdotal reports, don't you? then the anecdotal reported me tell you we called into the public hearings and this is the atlas, not the 1st public hearing. the according to they have been the universities that are past it. every public hearing the that exact was constantly issue but their party holy party is vegetarian somebody is very detailed in jane. so many things that you carrion. i mean how is that an example of cough discrimination? not all of that, ma'am. i'm sorry, i'm interrupting you, but i did not all of that. let me take a few names here period. i was speaking to the bbc who was talking about a lunch party that he was invited to that he was hesitant to go to. he said,

i was hesitant to go as cause dictates where you sit, i need but i thought it will be different. yeah. as people are educated, he wasn't allowed to touch the food. his food was handed to him, then you know, push on them or take work i, who has worked in microsoft meta and dell, who said i caught as an insight into the dominant cost community. i can confirm bites for practice of cost in our city and surrounding it. yeah, just 2 examples. i am in google ha. i've lived in the united states of 40 years, worked in some of the biggest companies, and had crimes across silicon valley. not once had i expedients cost, i'm not seeing other people don't have it at the same experience. i'm to see. it's a non issue to a large population of the americans in united states. and also let me tell you, i grew up in india, but cost was never part of my life. i'm not saying it is true for everybody. yes, it was not for me. so coming to united states, there was never

a consciousness of cause. they exactly as you know, to those do people show up everywhere and the one die pretty out. i think his name on the other countries, we have lots of issues. it for those countries to take care of it. india has, but not many other countries, but to bring things and look at things from the lens of india in the united states . as most of the center is looking at it from the lens of the organism targeting indians in particular, is it it is targeting hindu americans, specifically, hindu american, is that a the language was amended at the very end to add other communities and countries, lakes and other african countries, japan, et cetera. a the examples used to justify the law are all based on hindus acting in a wrong way, not real roof office,

but not the ordinance has come into effect. would it not apply across the board because the ordinance claims to be targeting of practice and not a community? and as you can see, pointed out the language was changed. so what exist now is not targeting a community it is because let me tell you this a lot. i know it is, it does shamartha that sort of gone through. but when we introduce in question, she's, it works is a socialist person and she has been very clear on the whole goal. with this law, she wants to attack the corporate bosses. and if you look at the top companies, many of them are that are by indian americans on a large and hindu american. so he idea is to top an american capitalism. she's gunning for people who are running these companies. so again, it's time getting a particular fate and a particular community. there's no doubt about that, right? they're not political conspiracy. just because it is

a political conspiracy that in total it council members of the seattle city council agreed to there was no $6.00 to $1.00. the one long descent continent a part of your city, and she has written a great, please on why she of course did you should read that. and that you said grounding for how logical and unreasonable this bill is. but you know, the other 6 bent at home because they have done this for a long time, and many of them are not running for city concert positions in the next room. so this is their last night and they got this granted through by passing committee reviews, baking acknowledgement of the fact that 20000 is right, was sent by him. both of our stripes kind of and 13 organizations, hindu and non hindu posted. not that matter because they had an agenda,

their guardian and i had to do as a hindu version. i really am offended that somebody like shamartha and her cohorts late the quantity labs, a team to represent my interest. they do not. i don't need it. i can fight my own battles. so i basically have to do i reject that law and honestly just turn it into a slot for those. because if you want to use those naughty chords, you can't even say, hey, i don't believe in him to reason. i don't have enough that doesn't count. if you are accused you are right now clearly i think we're all we know all the nerve isn't . thank this old mister cork to get different strategies. right? so i can't or publicly state what we will do, but we have to consider this law is extremely dangerous precedent. and sometimes what happens in seattle, which is a very progressive liberal, i would say, sang to the city. people think it's a good oh example and they want to follow,

which would actually cause a lot of issues for hindus living in many, many of the cities. so we are considering our options, raising the approx, proceed based on what we consider as the best option. we'll have to leave at the time being the thank you so much for joining us. so those are enough and board member of the coordination of in those of north america. thank you so much. mm hm. thank you. thank you. and that's it for the baby is born. i website it over dot com, forward slash asia mazama. you can follow up facebook and twitter to back again tomorrow. at the same time with me, it's just a thought so crazy. i

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