Class
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Reinforcing Caste Boundaries in Everyday Social Interactions
X.T.M cites a thesis on how upper-class Bania women help uphold caste boundaries in daily life, notes a statistic on Bania and Brahmin dominance of corporate boards, and contrasts Indian…
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Race and religion trump class
Focusing on victims of ‘Asian’ grooming gang scandals, the author argues they were treated as vulnerable and expendable because of class, and that police would have acted faster had the…
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The unconscious whiteness of Britain-
The author recounts a story of a Cambridge college bursar’s racist lighting remark that cost an Asian engineer a contract, and argues institutional racism, sexism and classism will keep Britain’s…
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Comment of the day
X.T.M promotes a comment by girmit on how wealth is distributed across ethnic groups, adding his own view of class in Britain and Pakistan and tribal ties in Uganda.