<div class="at-above-post addthis tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/seattle-considers-historic-law-barring-caste-discrimination/"></div>One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather a man she “otherwise loved very much” utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she asked her grandfather why he used […]<! AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get the excerpt ><! AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get the excerpt ><! AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get the excerpt ><! AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on get the excerpt ><! AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on get the excerpt ><div class="at-below-post addthis tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/seattle-considers-historic-law-barring-ca
If Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant's proposed ordinance passes, Seattle will become the first city in the U.S. to outlaw caste-based discrimination.
Calls to outlaw discrimination based on caste, a division of people based on birth or descent, have grown louder among South Asian diaspora communities in the United States.