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.