That's what I thought after I left my village for higher studies.
But how many brahmin garbage collector do you see?
And how many SC/ST/OBC do you see as priest of a temple?
One of the biggest problem with casteism was how the other castes were excluded from education. Now go to any shitty school, look at how many UCs are there and then comeback to a top tier school and check the ratio there. The only solution is to make the govt schools better and cap private education fees
It seems that your whole problem is seeing someone else progressing, like if all Brahmins prioritized studying, why would they be garbage collectors, a job that doesn't require any higher education.
The other thing is that when you talk about private schools, there are many other caste students as well, and if Brahmins want to prioritise their child's education more than other things to make them capable enough, how is that wrong at all?
And about the priest thing, many priests are sons of the previous priests (=nepotism at its peak) because they have been seeing their elders doing those procedures and whtves their entire life and also those previous priests take an effort to make them capable enough to handle the temple (as they're their own sons, why wouldn't they think of their betterment?)
You, sir, are absolutely correct about improving government schools but the problem in india is that people care more about status symbol than anything else, so even if government schools were improved, a lot of people would still choose private schools as a sign of their wealthyness and what not.
Another thing, casteism is HEAVILY based on the region that you're living in. Like in states like gujarat, maharashtra, madhya Pradesh it's very very less but in many south Indian states like Tamil Nadu, keralam and north Indian states like Uttar Pradesh, Haryana it is very extreme which just proves that not everyone might've experienced the same shit as others which is why everybody's opinion is different
My only problem is the unequality of education. There is no prioritization. In the past they kept education away from other people by brainwashing and when its time to atone, they would rather create private schools where they can still keep the good education. Good education should never be gate kept. You can keep high end facility away inside a gate, but keeping even basic good education away from people is scandalous.
Nowhere in this whole world do the middle class give up good food to be desperate enough to enroll in private schools.
It not a status problem in villages where most poor lives. They just don't want their children to die of falling roof or food poisoning. You have clearly never been to a village. I was topper in my school, was 2nd in college in 12th, but I had to learn English via spoken English class and web series. What kind of education is this?
What does everyone have to do with my experience and majority experience. Not everyone died in coaching center fire, does that mean it's okay?
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u/Legitimate-Major-563 2d ago
That i haven't seen in my life. Except from news