Does America have a caste system? In the United States, inequality tends to be framed as an issue of either class, race or both. Consider, for example, criticism that Republicans’ new tax plan is a weapon of “class warfare,” or accusations that the recent U.S. government shutdown was racist. As an India-born novelist and scholar who teaches in the United States, I have come to see America’s stratified society through a different lens: caste. Many Americans would be appalled to think that anything like caste could exist in a country allegedly founded on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
After all, India’s atrocious caste system determines social status by birth, compels marriage within a community and restricts job opportunity. But is the U.S. really so different? What is caste? I first realized that caste could shed a new light on American inequality in 2016, when I was scholar-in-residence at the Center for Critical Race Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown. First, caste cannot be transcended. If the poor must work to earn every dollar, shouldn’t the rich? Correction: This piece incorrectly suggested that data drawn from Christopher Faricy’s book “Welfare for the Wealthy” were from 2016. The figures, on federal Medicaid spending, employer-based health insurance, and Pell grants and college-related tax deductions, were from 2012.
The GOP hopes to channel momentum from their victory of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into a push to overhaul the nation's welfare programs. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg) The argument over which poor people deserve aid has begun anew thanks to incipient Republican efforts to harshen work requirements attached to welfare programs. It’s a badly mistaken point of view. Open Society Justice Initiative. NativeWeb. The backwards history of attitudes toward public breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding in public is the controversy that never seems to die. A recent YouTube video that went viral shows a woman breastfeeding in public. One passerby tells her “not to do that in public”; another that being in “a decent place” – a bus stop, in this case – means not breastfeeding there. Several others call her “disgusting.” A few years ago, an experiment run by the Huffington Post showed that – even in states with laws protecting a woman’s right to nurse in public – women face censure, shaming and the threat of ejection from restaurants and public places when they breastfeed. At the same time, women who could breastfeed but don’t are widely perceived as selfish. Well-meaning organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics, La Leche League, and the Dr.
So what is it that society wants? It’s twisted logic, and it’s nothing new. When it was a blessing, not a curse In fact, in certain cases, it’s been seen as downright orthodox. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
List of Nobel laureates. Nobel laureates receive a gold medal together with a diploma and (as of 2012) 8 million SEK (roughly US$1.2 million, €0.93 million). The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: Nobelpriset, Norwegian: Nobelprisen) are prizes awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.[1] They were established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which dictates that the awards should be administered by the Nobel Foundation. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established in 1968 by the Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden, for contributions to the field of economics.
Each recipient, or "laureate", receives a gold medal, a diploma, and a sum of money, which is decided by the Nobel Foundation, yearly.[2] Prize Laureates List of laureates Notes See also References.
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