{"id":54404,"date":"2023-04-17T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/apr\/17\/caste-discrimination-california-law-thenmozhi-soundararajan"},"modified":"2023-04-17T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T10:00:36","slug":"caste-is-anti-asian-hate-the-activists-fighting-less-visible-discrimination-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54404","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Caste is anti-Asian hate\u2019: the activists fighting \u2018less visible\u2019 discrimination in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thenmozhi Soundararajan has spent her life battling for equity. Now California could pass a landmark law protecting it<\/p>\n<p>Thenmozhi Soundararajan had one of her earliest encounters with India\u2019s ancient caste ladder when she was 10, during a playdate at a friend\u2019s house not long after immigrating to the US.<\/p>\n<p>When Soundararajan revealed that she belongs to a caste once known as \u201cuntouchables\u201d \u2013 also known by the Sanskrit term \u201cDalit\u201d \u2013 her friend\u2019s mother, with a disgusted look, asked her to eat communal snacks on a separate plate so she could not taint the rest of the family.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/apr\/17\/caste-discrimination-california-law-thenmozhi-soundararajan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thenmozhi Soundararajan has spent her life battling for equity. Now California could pass a landmark law protecting itThenmozhi Soundararajan had one of her earliest encounters with India\u2019s ancient caste ladder when she was 10, during a playdate at a f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3700,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[559,1084,62,362,61,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-california","category-india","category-race","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54405,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54404\/revisions\/54405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}