The caste system transformed Indian genetics – David Reich

[DwarkeshPatel]

Dr. Reich is a geneticist at Harvard, and author of the book, "Who We Are and How We Got Here." We discuss his book and research in detail in our 2 hour conversation, which you can find here.

[johanswede]

Well...Indian racism is probably impossible to beat...

[Asuran]

Caste system is one of the worst thing of Hinduism even today so called educated Indians follow caste discrimination

[dlxmarks]

I'm reminded of Indian-American writer Anand Giridharadas' anecdote about going to a friend's house for a formal breakfast while visiting India. He was served with much deference by the family's obsequious and much-loved servant. Later that day, Giridharadas returned to the friend's house, this time in shorts and a T-shirt, to bring over a mattress. The same man who had served breakfast mistook Giridharadas for a delivery man and began gruffly barking orders at him. When Giridharadas reminded the servant who he was, he says the man underwent a "total human metamorphosis ... he shrunk right in front of me from a master to a servant."
I've experienced this kind of "kiss up/kick down" behavior from immigrant employees in US companies and I think it's very unhealthy for everyone involved.

[ramkumar_watch]

The caption "The caste system transformed Indian genetics" is misleading. David Reich explicitly states that due to the caste system, genetic mixing did not occur in India, meaning the present genetic landscape is essentially a snapshot of how it was 1, 000 years ago. Rather than transforming Indian genetics, the caste system reinforced endogamy, preserving ancient genetic structures with minimal change over centuries.

[Chadpritai]

“I do not believe that we can build up a free society in India so long as there is a trace of this ill-treatment and suppression of one class by another.” - Dr. Ambedkar

[dr.woozie]

Used to work at a Fortune 500 bank in the US. One of the hiring managers was Indian and his technology team was 90% Indian and he would only hire people from a specific region of India of Brahmin caste... if you think casteism only exists in India, you're wrong.

Edit: some people don’t believe me but there was a whole internal investigation about this at my company. The reason all of this was brought up to HR in the first place was because he made a comment on the caste of an interviewee and also that he was Tamil. The IT team I’m referring to had about 35-40 employees. Im not saying this is common but there are also public lawsuits regarding caste discrimination in Google and Microsoft.

[juice]

If you go to countries like Singapore, Malaysia or Fiji, places with very high Indian populations, you'll see that caste discrimination literally doesnt exist anywhere. That is because most Indians living in those places are descendants of lower or middle caste Indians who were either brought by the british or migrated willingly during the raj. They went outside India and realized how bullshit this whole idea of caste is and left it behind. But in countries like America, UK and Canada where most of the immigrants are upper caste you will unironically find slivers of the system lol.

[VivekBabbar]

Bro triggered the whole caste apologist community with a single video 😂 They'll do anything but try to change this brutal system.

[snowylove]

"You're asking me a cultural question, not a genetic one" David Reich is a beast

[MandeepKumar-uhxs]

Nobody in this comment section has lived a day in India and are just making blatant bold statements to feed in to a divisive narrative that often only leads to more conflict within Hindu society.

[nochill]

Help me Steppe ancestor I'm stuck.

[joyapril]

I born in the last layer of this caste system: it won’t change even in another thousand years. Brahmins still wants my people to stand outside clean drains and toilets by hand: it’s disgusting, modi govt is encouraging this in all the directions,

[PS-nskn]

Dear Indians,
Pls be tolerant with others opinion not everything in world runs on your dharma views.
That person is researchers, if you have facts counter with logic rather baseless comments. I am indian too.

[Yeeha]

India has caste systems, other countries have racism based on skin and the amount of wealth to their name. Poor people will kick down someone even poorer and worship someone even richer. It’s a sad reality but a dark part of human culture and its obsession of hierarchy. It’s what one calls “group think”

[trevormcdonald]

Caste is not tied to color. That is a lie.

[KryCaNe]

This is an expert on the SCIENCE of genetics. That is all.

Watching people project their racism by attacking the researcher.

[mtarkes]

Patels are not a homogenous community. Patel (Patil/Patidar) is just a title given to land owning class of tribes-turned-peasants similar to Jats, Yadavs, Gurjars. Because they are located in the western belt of India, these communities have relatively more foreign DNA compared to similar communities found in more interior regions of India like Marathas, Kurmis and Gowdas. Both Punjab as well as Gujarat regions have seen continuous infiltration of Iranian and other central asian barbarians mixing with local population for most of their history.

[leomelvinfernandez]

I guess Somone won the game of thrones in India. And the great houses stayed the same for Ages

[moc]

In india everything is next level.. racism nothing compared to casteism and caste system😅