They have now elected a well-toned black man to the Presidency, while just 100 years back, they were trading these types. It truly goes to show that, while the cancer still exists, the people are fighting it, both in the courts, and in their minds.
I don't know if the same can be said of India. I mean, how many high-caste individuals still feel that others can be equally human, and will eat in their houses? How many SC/STs have actually been elected CMs/PMs? India will have a longer fight against, caste, in addition to that against creed and currency. Obama used no privilege of any quota system. He went to Harvard. However, just as change has taken place in the US, seeds are being sown in the Motherland as well. Our generation, for example, is a lot less tunnel-visioned, and caste seems less of an issue than personal-ities. Albeit, for racism in its most refined form of casteism, our Motherland has to be the Fatherland.
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