Forms of social inequality,caste system,untouchability,adivasis etc
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Untouchability is the practice of ostracising a group by segregating them from the mainstream by social custom or legal mandate. The excluded group could be one that did not accept the norms of the excluding group and historically included foreigners, nomadic tribes, law-breakers and criminals and those suffering from a contagious disease. It could also be a group that did not accept the change of customs enforced by a certain group. This exclusion was a method of punishing law-breakers and also protecting traditional societies against contagion from strangers and the infected. A member of the excluded group is known as an Untouchable.
The term is commonly associated with treatment of the Dalit communities, who are considered "polluting" among the people of the Indian subcontinent, but the term has been used for other groups as well, such as the Burakumin of Japan, Cagots in Europe, or the Al-Akhdam in Yemen.[1]
Untouchability has been made illegal in post-independence India, and Dalits substantially empowered, and attempts have been continuously made to end the hostilities.[2]
Contents
1 Diverse ethnicities population in the Indian subcontinent
1.1 Government action in India
2 Untouchable groups
2.1 France
2.2 Japan
2.3 Korea
2.4 Other
3 See also
4 References
Diverse ethnicities population in the Indian subcontinent
Untouchables of Malabar, Kerala (1906).
According to Sarah Pinto, an anthropologist, untouchability in India applies to people whose work relates to "death, bodies, meat, and bodily fluids".[3] In the name of untouchability, Dalits have faced work and descent-based discrimination at the hands of the dominant castes. Instances of caste discrimination at different places and times included:[4]
Prohibition from eating with other members
Provision of separate cups in village tea stalls
Separate seating arrangements and utensils in restaurants
Segregation in seating and food arrangements in village functions and festivals
Prohibition from entering into village temples
Prohibition from wearing sandals or holding umbrellas in front of higher caste members
Prohibition from entering other caste homes
Prohibition from using common village path
Separate burial grounds
No access to village's common/public properties and resources (wells, ponds, temples, etc.)
Segregation (separate seating area) of children in schools
Inequalities shave been observed across many segments of the society. wealth inequality is among them and is evident through distribution of resources in a country. responsibility inequality is also evident in areas like the work place where the employer may have show favouritism to some workers while overworking others.
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