"bitter anko" <anko@eater.com> wrote in message
news:d1lh4u$17ko$1@nwall1.odn.ne.jp...
>
> Burakumins are very different from those "untouchables" in India.
Burakumins
> had the monopoly and privileges while they were discriminated against from
> ordinary civilians. They were more like merchants actually. Merchant class
> people were also discriminated against from agricultural people and
> samurais, but merchants were rich.  It was a carrot-and-stick policy of
the
> Tokugawa shogunate while "untouchables" in India are religiously just
> subhumans.

It just keeps babbling... *eyeroll*


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