Posted by: metta January 11, 2015
'राम्री छ्यौ, दलितजस्तो देखिन्नौ त!'-A Mirror of Nepali Society
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So are you saying that 'semantics' is the issue? Let's erase the word 'Dalit'. It is no brainer that the concept of dalits came somewhere during some period. They experience this on regular basis in Nepal, and they're not saying this because of political parties. They can say that they're being discriminated because they were sarkis, kamais, etc instead of the word 'dalit'. The issue remains. What are you trying to bring by discussing on semantic?

I refuse to believe that it occurs only because discrimination against dalits occurred only because of poverty, lack of education or ignorance. She gave the examples of generations saying that it doesn't matter when she was poor, uneducated, and ignorant lived in the similar society in Village or when she came above poverty-level, became educated, and knowledgeable and lived among the riches, so-called educated, and so called knowledgeable in the cities. She was discriminated in both worlds. Doesn't that point that there are perhaps more issues beyond the lines of poverty, education, & Ignorance?
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