Birth is a beginning…not an end, unlike how the Caste System in Nepal treats it.
How do some Nepalese see statistics about composition of different bodies in Nepal?
While a few explain away the disproportionate representation of the High Caste by ascribing it to education, others are against disseminating such information because, according to them, they promote animosity and inter-caste hatred etc. These "educated" Nepalese fail to see/understand -- among other things -- how information is actually educational and empowering!
The biggest killer of Nepalese girls and women is suicide. Part of the reason has to do with Nepalese society not valuing female lives anywhere near as much as those of males in general and other social issues arising from cultural practices and mentality. There are things we, the Nepalese men, can do to change things around.
Nepal is a country by men, for men. But it's time to recognize why that is so and to move forward.
Social structure propped up, supported and perpetuated by Nepal's very highly patriarchal caste system has given rise to a bureaucractic and political--and other--systems that's characterized by deplorable structural inequality, which many of those responsible aren't able to understand or, if they do, will not acknowledge.
But there is a solution!
What does privilege in Nepal look like? Here's an exercise to visually and dramatically show that.
Poverty is an injustice. One of the surest ways of fighting that injustice is by empowering our girls and women.
If only a human being were reducible to a stereotype...if only a human being could be completely defined by the mere social construct of social status...if only.
If you don't or cannot display compassion and humanity to those around you at this time of desperate need for just that, then you cannot expect compassion and humanity from others living in far off lands!
Any and every injustice against an individual, in the end, is as injustice against every other individual. There are, and can be, no exception!
One Dalit's story of life-long discrimination and humiliation, and struggle for personal recognition for who he is and what he has become through his own efforts lays bare some of the worst aspects of our Caste System.