As I’ve mentioned several times before (such as here and here), “Reservations” is the term used in India to refer to quotas (the term frankly used there) for the “backward castes” and the “other backward castes.”
Now Znet (“a community of people committed to social change”) publishes an article arguing that here in the U.S. we should move onto the “Reservation” and emulate the Indians:
The support for the Reservation is synonymous with opposition to the “everything for me, nothing for you” approach of Washington’s neo-liberal policies which are being forced down the throats of the people of India. The Brahmins have given their ritualistic response which might not surprise anthropologists. People in India have a choice: to either stand by the Brahmins or to stand by the right to education for all Indians? We in the U.S have similar choices: whether to promote a government that cares for people or to promote one that benefits a narrow US corporate elite which (like the Indian elite) wreak havoc inside the country – including by dismantling the social security infrastructure which benefit millions of ordinary Americans – as well as promote huge disparities and criminal atrocities abroad.
Yes, indeed. Racial preference is ideal (even the ideal) for people who reject individual rights as outmoded neo-liberalism.
UPDATE
If the Michigan Civil Rights Intiative (MCRI) loses, and racial preferences get locked into our system for the indefinite future, this headline from the New Delhi Telegraph may be the sort of news we’ll have to look forward to:
New Delhi, Nov. 6: The government will not reduce the other backward classes quota from 27 per cent in the light of findings that the group makes up 36 per cent of the population and not 52 per cent as earlier believed.
