トームさんのインスタグラム写真 - (トームInstagram)「A reflection on India (and the USA) on #IndianRepublicanDay from “Caste : The Origins of Our Discontent” by @isabelwilkerson The United States and India are profoundly different from each other - in culture, technology, economics, ethnic makeup. And yet many generations ago, these two great lands paralleled each other, both protected by oceans and ruled for a time by the British, fertile and coveted. Both adopted social hierarchies and abide great chasms between the highest and the lowest in their respective lands. Both were conquered by people said to be Aryans arriving, in one case, from across the Atlantic Ocean, in the other, from the north. Those deemed lowest in each country would serve those deemed high. The younger country, the United States, would become the most powerful Democracy on earth. The older country, India, the largest. Their respective hierarchies are profoundly different. And yet, as if operating from the same instruction manual translated to fit their distinctive cultures, both countries adopted similar methods of maintaining rigid lines of demarcation and protocols. Both countries kept their dominant caste separate, apart and above those deemed lower. Both exiled their indigenous peoples - the Adivasi in India, the Native Americans in the United States - to remote lands and to the unseen margins of society. Both countries enacted a fretwork of laws to chain the lowliest group - Dalits in India and African-Americans in the United States - to the bottom , using terror and force to keep them there. ...both countries have since abolished the formal laws that defined their caste systems - the United States in a series of civil rights laws in the 1960s and India decades before, in the 1940s , but both caste systems live on in hearts and habits, institutions and infrastructures. Both countries still live with the residue of codes that prevailed for far longer than they have not.」1月26日 8時31分