caste discrimination - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

A “comparative” study of this issue by A. M. Hocart called kingship its focal institution, unlike most Western studies. A book on this issue argues that it is not exploitative because it involves “contributions to a whole,” in contrast to de Tocqueville’s (“TOHK-veel’s”) individualism. A country’s remedies for this issue are subject to the “creamy layer” doctrine. This issue, which was was publicized in the US (10[1]-5[1])by a 2020 case against Cisco, is the subject (10[2])of (10[3])Louis Dumont’s (10[3]-5[1])(“dew-MON’s”) study (10[3])Homo Hierarchicus. A vetoed 2023 (10[1])bill (10[1])would have made California the first (10[1])state to explicitly ban this form of discrimination, (10[3])which is the subject of a book titled for its “Annihilation” by a writer who was hailed by the slogan Jai Bhim. For 10 points, what discrimination protested (10[1])by (10[1])B. (10[1])R. Ambedkar (“ahm-BAYD-ker”) affects Silicon (10[1])Valley (10[1])workers from Dalit backgrounds? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: caste discrimination [or caste system; accept jajmani, jati, jadi, or varnas in place of “caste”; accept descriptions of discrimination against untouchables, Harijans, “Other Backwards Classes,” “Educationally Backwards Classes,” or OBCs; accept discrimination against Dalits until read; prompt on affirmative action by asking “to remedy what specific form of discrimination?”] (India’s “creamy layer” doctrine states that affirmative action programs must prevent overuse by the richest part of disadvantaged groups.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Shiv Seshan	Chicago D	Kentucky	64	10
Chinmay Murthy	Texas	Stanford	64	-5
Sanjay Srihari	Georgia Tech	Northwestern	73	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Purdue	73	10
Matt Jackson	Chicago A	Columbia A	74	10
Robert Condron	Chicago B	Cornell A	74	10
Anirudh Bharadwaj	Penn	Arizona State	74	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Michigan	76	10
Yared Tadesse	Cornell B	McGill	76	10
Urbas Ekka	Minnesota B	North Carolina B	76	-5
Akshay Seetharam	Claremont Colleges	WUSTL B	76	10
Swapnil Garg	Berkeley A	NYU	77	10
Jake Greer	Harvard	Truman State	77	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Ottawa	77	10
Anuttam Ramji	Berkeley B	Chicago C	82	10
Andrew Wang	Illinois	Yale A	83	10
Alex Akridge	Indiana	Minnesota A	89	10
Sky Li	Toronto A	Brown	97	10
Michael Du	Waterloo	North Carolina A	97	10
Kushal Aluru	Rutgers	Yale B	97	10
Alan Wu	Vanderbilt	South Carolina	125	10
Ben Wismath	Toronto B	Florida	126	10
Jack Rado	Columbia B	Duke	127	10
Michal Gerasimiuk	Stanford	Texas	131	10
Caleb Kendrick	Maryland	Johns Hopkins	132	10
Graham Troy	North Carolina B	Minnesota B	137	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	24	100%	0%	8%	92.25