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Caste equality advocates in the US vow not to give up
When Prem Pariyar arrived in the United States from Nepal in 2015, he didn't expect that he would be sleeping in a van or on couches in employee housing due to his caste affiliation.
"I thought caste discrimination does not exist here.
I was very depressed," Pariyar told DW.
Pariyar, a descendant of a family in the Hindu Dalit caste, sometimes referred to discriminatorily as the "Untouchables," is one of many South Asian advocates pushing forward efforts to legally recognize caste discrimination in the US.
While caste is commonly referred to in the context of Hinduism and India, it is a social hierarchy system that is thousands of years old and recognized in several countries across the region, including Nepal, where Pariyar grew up.
"We need to educate everyone so that this system will be stopped," he told DW.
"We are isolated generation to generation. There is intergenerational trauma."