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?

The origin myths behind Nepalis’ “खुट्टा तान्ने प्रवृत्ति”

Post published:June 22, 2020
Post category:Spirituality & Science Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

"Khutta tanne prabidhi" is the Nepalis' tendency to and practice of not only pulling others more "successful" down, but also actively preventing others from accessing that which may make them successful. Here are two origin myths that apparently explain how it started and affirm that practice!

Caste Hierarchy, False-equivalence Argument, and Mount Everest

Post published:January 23, 2020
Post category:Social Justice

When a hill so-called high caste Hindu counters a member of another caste describing the challenges in their lives because of the caste they are born into by saying that they too struggle and have had to work hard to get as far as they have gotten in life, they are basically making a false-equivalence argument. What is a false-equivalence argument anyway? I go into the details by using an analogy -- that of climbing Mount Everest.