"South Asian Diwali festival" is like celebrating "lunar new year" by East Asians. This new year was based on the calendar invented in China by at least the 14th century BC (yes, BC) if not earlier, from where it propagated to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. In English it was always called "Chinese New Year" until the PC crowd, to support their fabricated social-activist notion of "Asian American," a pure 1960's absurdity, dissociated it from Chinese history to call it "lunar new year." In fact, the Chinese calendar isn't even a lunar calendar. It is a soli-lunar calendar, with months based on the moon and years based on the sun. "Lunar new year" is pure woke (and/or ignorant) nonsense (as is the term "Asian American" -- I know, respect, and like Indians, but to put them and the Chinese in the same "identity" is ridiculous).
The caste narrative in the US got a huge boost due to the success of the book "Caste" by Isabel Wilkerson. I debunked the book's claims relating to US data in a two-part review right here in J-FBT. Wilkerson is even more wrong when it comes to her claims about the Indian caste system. Here are links to my posts:
"South Asian Diwali festival" is like celebrating "lunar new year" by East Asians. This new year was based on the calendar invented in China by at least the 14th century BC (yes, BC) if not earlier, from where it propagated to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. In English it was always called "Chinese New Year" until the PC crowd, to support their fabricated social-activist notion of "Asian American," a pure 1960's absurdity, dissociated it from Chinese history to call it "lunar new year." In fact, the Chinese calendar isn't even a lunar calendar. It is a soli-lunar calendar, with months based on the moon and years based on the sun. "Lunar new year" is pure woke (and/or ignorant) nonsense (as is the term "Asian American" -- I know, respect, and like Indians, but to put them and the Chinese in the same "identity" is ridiculous).
The caste narrative in the US got a huge boost due to the success of the book "Caste" by Isabel Wilkerson. I debunked the book's claims relating to US data in a two-part review right here in J-FBT. Wilkerson is even more wrong when it comes to her claims about the Indian caste system. Here are links to my posts:
https://medium.com/@nandiniwriter/what-author-isabel-wilkerson-gets-wrong-about-caste-in-india-e887420fba74
https://medium.com/@nandiniwriter/to-touch-or-not-to-touch-that-is-the-question-fe568770b10f
https://medium.com/@nandiniwriter/caste-based-lighter-skin-preferences-0af75624d84b
https://medium.com/@nandiniwriter/positions-of-authority-acbbf10bb3d3
https://medium.com/@nandiniwriter/discrimination-and-unconscious-bias-ec3f239fd71a
https://medium.com/@nandiniwriter/sacred-thread-2125017dbe80.
My review of "Origins," the film very loosely based on the book is here: https://medium.com/@nandiniwriter/what-ava-duvernays-origin-gets-wrong-52d883c1399d