If her fellow council members approve it Tuesday, Seattle will become the first city in the United States to specifically outlaw caste discrimination. Sawant said the ordinance does not single out one community, but accounts for how caste discrimination crosses national and religious boundaries. Among the diaspora, many Dalits pushing to end caste discrimination are not Hindu. If converting to another religion was a solution, people would be free from caste discrimination by now.”In school, Sagar was made to sit on a separate bench. In 2014, he organized a march from the White House to Capitol Hill demanding that caste discrimination be recognized under the U.S. Civil Rights Act.
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