In the class we discussed how in the census we have to put in our race and ethnicity, and we also discussed if it is a discrmination. I was doing some research on this topic and found a article on yahoo.com "http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100609/wl_csm/306239" conserning the same topic. In India government is decideing to put a coulmb of caste in the census, in case if you dont know in india society was divided based on the caste and people were appointed job based on their caste. after 1931 govenrment decided get rid of this system and now government wants to ask people what caste they are from in the census. When i Started reading the article i was surprise that goverment is doing discrimination openly but my view changed later on.
While most people think that asking people caste is a discrimination. But after reading the government reasiong I doesn't seems discrimination. Governement have reserved certain percentage of jobs, and university enrollment for the lower caste people also known as "untouchable", and now governement want to know based on the population and economic status of lower caste people, if they should increase the reservation or not because they have no official data. All the past reservation were done on the bassis on the census taken in 1931 after that indian census never had any columbs asking for caste but current government think that its not fair for the lower caste people to get a reservation in jobs and university based on old census. Using old census is more discrimanting. So based on this I dont think Indian goverment is doing discrimination and same thing in USA when census ask for enthincity I think they use the information to figure out which group will need more help.
You make some great connections in this post. Using the example of India really causes us to think about the census in the U.S. from a different perspective.
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