Caste System Fostered and Propped up Groupism in Nepal Corrals People into Small Social Circles Part I

Post published:July 25, 2020
Post category:Social Justice

In Nepal's brand of groupism, the most important and valuable functional unit is the extended family. That and following the dictates of the caste system means that we live and move within small social bubbles. Who one forms alliances with -- such as marries, works, socializes with etc. -- depends a lot on ones ethnicity and caste. It's as if like we are still tribes living in the hunter-gatherer phase of human evolution!

When Nepalis Use the Caste System to Make Others Suffer…with an Exception

Post published:July 20, 2020
Post category:Social Justice

Outcastes, foreigners, according to the caste system, are supposed to be of lower status than Dalits, and therefore even more "impure." At one time, some category of them were treated as such. But no longer. Nepalis changed their views of, attitude towards, and behaviors with them within a little more than a generation. When will we do the same when it comes to fellow Nepalis and stop discriminating against them so so much more?

Birth is a Beginning…Not an End…As the Hindus Would Have You Believe

Post published:June 6, 2020
Post category:Social Justice

Birth is a beginning...of unrealized, unpredictable, unimaginable potential! But the Hindus will have you believe that it is an end and make many suffer for it, consequently. Of course, that's completely WRONG.

So Your Ancestor is a Casteist? The Standard Responses to the Question & Their Alternatives

Post published:April 29, 2020
Post category:Social Justice

Some of the standard reactions White people have to statements about or discussions on their racists ancestors and conversations about present-day racism, the hill so-called called high caste Hindus in Nepal also have when it comes to their ancestors and casteism. Here are the most common ones and their alternative!

So You Think There is No Caste-based Discrimination in Nepal? Think Again!

Post published:January 16, 2020
Post category:Social Justice

Being told again and again that very little or no caste-based discrimination exists in Nepal, I started documenting, on Twitter, news reports about just that -- caste-based discrimination. The articles I shared in the tweets were mostly about discrimination and mistreatment of Dalits, the lowest caste. In this blog post, I have reproduced all the tweets in that thread.

#LifeEh: Oh, The Irony!

Post published:January 13, 2019
Post category:My Personal Stories

One of the many issues I identified growing up in Nepal, which I believed would be the source of many unwarranted struggles to make something of myself, had been my severe lack of social capital. So, I worked really hard to escape from the country. Succeeding in doing so and spending most of my adult life abroad, I practically ensured I would have even less social capital when I finally returned home! #LifeEh!