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1. United States

Seattle banned caste discrimination, the first city in the country to do so. While discrimination by caste is illegal in much of South Asia, the systems of hierarchical categorization determined at birth persist there and around the world, often leading to mistreatment of people in “lower” castes.

As South Asian immigrant populations have grown in the United States, so have accusations of caste discrimination in employment, housing, and social life in these communities – along with calls for change.

In the first formal documentation in the U.S.