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LuckyTheDog

(6,837 posts)
Fri Jul 25, 2014, 10:57 AM Jul 2014

YouTube channel shows what it’s like to be an ‘untouchable’

One talks about being beaten up. Another describes how people humiliate her. Many more speak about rape — a common danger facing women of India's lowest caste.

Meet the dalits, better known in the West as “untouchables” — an Indian caste so denigrated that they suffer explicit discrimination and abuse.

Now, they’re fighting back, taking to the internet to tell their stories.

Welcome to DalitCamera, the YouTube channel for untouchables. It’s one man's initiative to give a voice to the very bottom of Indian society, and to lift them up.

MORE HERE: http://wonkynewsnerd.com/youtube-channel-shows-like-untouchable/



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