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They ve left South Asia, but they can t escape the discrimination and division of its caste system
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MarMarch 2021 at 4:29am
It took the re-emergence of a movement fighting for the rights of those in the lowest caste for me to question my own role in the system.
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I replied that I didn t know.
But as Jasbeer Mustafa, an academic from Western Sydney University, told me: If you don t know your caste, it s most likely you re upper caste.
As a new migrant to Australia I was surprised when I learnt caste discrimination exists in a country so far removed geographically and culturally from South Asia.