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i british manager, welcome to did up the news asia, glad you could join us. last months, yaki became the 1st city of the united states to band cost based discrimination. the band will applied things like employment, housing, and public transport. the car system originally born out of ancient him, the scriptures continues to hold sway across much of south asia and the dice bora. originally a system of ordering society a long lines of profession, it soon moved into an instrument of social division and control. one is born into a cost and there is little scope for movement out of it. upper costs have also traditionally had greater access to education and opportunities. why lower costs less? so to the point that some like that, let's face near complete social exclusion. goss discrimination is banned in india,

but seattle has now become the 1st you are 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 so they didn't smoke cost travers in the name of preserving cultural in the name of preserving our language. so all this things are being preserved. you know, all these things are practiced. the law allows us to now speak, talk about things that are wrong without dog is a futile conclusion on people do not want to talk about many support. is it city whole would doll it the lowest grouping in the cost hierarchy. in that 2016 survey a dollar 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 support as say without the band as 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, 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 are here for the big for the long haul to make sure that be protect our in the human rights as well as our culture and traditions like all other indigenous traditions across the world, calls for specific cost discrimination laws have been growing in the u s, and some universities have already implemented a band activist now, once this,

when in seattle to spread across the country, guy, instances of cost discrimination across the us have been hard to track before the seattle ordinance. no city legally recognize the practice as discrimination. but angels have tracked instances, and before the ordinance went to vote 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 their company, no matter how much experience they have. this comes from their deep rooted hatred of those from the so called low a cast and not from ignorance of how affirmative action works. and that's just one

way cost us relation manifests 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 added cost as a protect category. and you see davis and harvard introducing policies to protect against cast discrimination and gentlemen offer more so the jargon, nothing has a board member of the coalition of hindus, of north america. one of the groups against this ordinance is you're going to wake him. why is your organization opposed to legal protections against cost discrimination? me i will pose because seattle and dal has no data on any cost discrimination in seattle or around united states. so they're basing out law which affects the people reciting in seattle on the basis of no data. and let me just share with you

what a council member i was in a conversation with somebody for protesting. oh ty, ask the question, there is no data. how are you doing this? and she said, called they opposition is saying there is no data and it's all anecdotal. but that's how you start. you build your data, anecdotes. i mean, what kind of the legal system is there. so there is a lot wrong with this data because with the law because it's racist, it's discriminatory because it targets one single community, which is a hindu, met against. so by trying to stop discrimination there, housing discrimination, but a subset of the population. there's a number of things you've said, let's talk about that nor data point. when you say that there is no data, are you saying that caused discrimination does not happen in the united states? well, i don't want a category. can you say that my good is no evidence there as a single, there is nose?

no, not even one single report of cost discrimination anywhere in the united states. not even there will not be an official report. remember, man, because caused discrimination has not been grounded in law. it 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 reports, let me tell you we called in to the public hearings and does the seattle is not the 1st public hearing? the guiding there have been universities that are past it every public hearing there, there examples of casters, communities that are there by the holy party is vegetarian somebody is they get alien and it janes are militant vegetarian. i mean, how is that an example of cast discrimination? yeah, but that is not all of that, ma'am. i'm sorry, i'm interrupting you, but that is not all of it. let me take a few names. you have pretty. 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 asked to go as cost dictates where you sit, i need but i thought of the be different here. as people are educated, he wasn't allowed to touch the food. his food was handed to him. then you have prashant nima. take worker who has worked in microsoft meter and dell, who said i caught as an insider into the dominant cast community. i can confirm widespread practice of cast in our city and surrounding area. just 2 examples. i am a hindu. good. yeah. 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 have i experienced 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 hebrew 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 seeing it is true for everybody else. it was not for me. so coming to the united states, there was never

a consciousness of the examples. you'll notice those 2 people show up everywhere and the one die pity out. i think he's ne party. other countries may have lots of he shoes. 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 is most of the circle is looking at it from the lens of it. but the ordinance isn't targeting indians in particular, is it it is targeting hindu americans specifically in go, american is that will be all hers is that the language of the language was em? indeed at the very end to add. 5 other communities and countries, lakes and other african countries, japan, et cetera. but the examples used to justify the law are all based on hindus acting in a wrong way with no real roof office. but now that the ordinance has come into effect,

would it not apply across the board because the ordinance claims to be targeting a practice and not a community. and as you could actually pointed out, the language was changed. so what exist now is not targeting a community it is because let me tell you, it does a lot. no it is. it does show mazama that you're going to the woman who introduced question. she's, it will exist socialist person and she has been very clear on the hook goals with this law. she wants to attack the corporate bosses. right. and if you look at the top companies, many of them on that, on by indian americans on a hindu american. so he put idea is to topple american capitalism. she's gunning for people. who are, i mean, 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. so just to be clear, it is a, it is

a political conspiracy of it. in total, eep council members of the seattle city council agreed to there was no $6.00 to $1.00, the one loan descent continent, asada nelson. she has an apology, and she hasn't done a great piece on why she opposed did you should read that? and that gives a grounding for how illogical unreasonable this bill is. but you know, the other 6 bent along because they have done this for a long time, and many of them are not running for city council positions in the next level. so this is the last 4. all right. and they got this granted through by passing committee reviews, baking i, acknowledgement of the fact that 20000 in is my sent my can booth or stripes kind of in the deed, organizations, hindu and non hindu posted. none, not that matter because they had an agenda, they got done and i had to do as a him,

the legion, i really am offended that somebody lecture last month and her cohorts. like why did the labs, a claim to represent my interest? they do not. i don't need them, i can fight my own battles. so i basically have to tell you i reject that law and honestly just not any dangerous lot. booking those because if you want to use there is no real cause. you can't even say, hey, i don't believe in him tourism, i don't have a class that doesn't count. if you are accused you are right are clearly are, will, will your organization think this ordinance to court? you get different strategies, right? so i can't or publicly state what we will do, but we have to consider this law as 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 and i think will brooks proceed based on what we consider as the best option. we'll have to leave it there for the time being. but thank you so much for joining us. so those are enough and board members of the coalition of in those of north america. thank you so much ma'am. thank you. thank you. and that's it for the earth is born. i website, the dover dot com, forward slash asia. i. mazama follows on facebook and twitter to back again tomorrow at the same time. so you, there was a boy and with this award winning offer is available worldwide for every language level, learning german has never been simpler german to go. what?

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