Origin (2023) Director: Ava Duverney (Based on the book, ' Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents' by Isabel Wilkerson) It is an interesting way of looking at all the problems affecting the world today. It is blamed on caste segregation. Traditionally, we think of caste as a problem only affecting India. And Indians believe it is a system brought in by colonial masters and divided the nation to ease control. The stifling of one layer of society over the other is not just based on the colour of their skin. It is something beyond. The group at the top end of the food chain would want to maintain the status quo and keep the people beneath them forever squashed. The writer, Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize winner, compared situations in three scenarios. She looked at the black situation in America, where blacks are stereotyped as troublemakers, poor, unemployed, unemployable and criminals. The system reinforces this stereotype upon them to a level that even the blacks buy into t...
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