Seattle has become the first city in the United States to explicitly ban discrimination based on caste.The city council in the capital of Washington state voted on Tuesday night to add caste, a hierarchical social system dating back thousands of years and practised throughout South Asia among people of all religions, to the city’s anti-discrimination laws.Several rights groups supported the measure amid a push for caste discrimination to be explicitly recognised under pre-existing state and federal anti-discrimination laws, as well as several high-profile lawsuits against employers in industries with large workforces from the South Asian diaspora.
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