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  • This house believes that social movements should advocate for members of its population to assimilate into, instead of dismantle, the systems it opposes (e.g., Black Lives Matter advocating for Black Americans to join the police force, the feminist movement advocating for women to co-opt masculine behaviors in the workplace).

    Sunway Asian Parliamentary 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-05-01

  • This house, as an up-and-coming star with a minority background on social media, would focus on becoming a 'deinfluencer' over an 'influencer'

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    “Deinfluencing” is a recent phenomenon on social media where ‘deinfluencers’ critique mainstream products, standards, or lifestyle choices. Deinfluencing stands in contrast to commercial influencing culture where influencers actively promote products, standards, or lifestyle choices (example: 'deinfluencing' viewers by critiquing makeup brands for not having inclusive shades vs. 'influencing' viewers by advocating for the positive aspects of the same makeup brands).

    Sunway Asian Parliamentary 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-05-01

  • THIS HOUSE OPPOSES MURUGAN'S DEFENCE

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    Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s son got married in an inter-caste love marriage between a Gounder groom and a Brahmin bride. Along with the congratulations that poured in for the young couple, many concerns were also raised by social media users over the Brahminical rituals followed during the wedding ceremony. Anti-caste Scholars have pointed out how Hindu Rituals embody and perpetuate casteist value systems. For instance, most Hindu rituals are structured around the Brahmin male figure and place him at the centre etc. Such brahminical religious authority often govern, dictate and control basic aspects of people’s lives — from naming newborn babies to approving life partners and performing last rites. In response to this criticism, Murugan published an OPEN LETTER and wrote a piece titled 'Jaadhiyai Thavirpadhu Eppodhu Saathiyam?' (‘When is it possible to avoid caste?’) on the Tamil website Arunchol. His apology lays down the compromises that are sought when two families belonging to different caste groups try to reach a consensus on the wedding rituals to be performed. They also emphasise how difficult it is to make anti-caste choices in general, given how caste informs every sphere of life and every action we perform. Further, Ambedkar also talks about the “infection of imitation” , by which he laments how Brahminical practices have become common among many other castes as well.

    Polemic 2024 · Round 3 · 2023-04-17

  • In the case of ethnographic research on remote and minority communities, This House supports the use of ethnographic refusal in postcolonial scholarship

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    Ethnography is a descriptive study of a particular human society and the process of making such a study. Contemporary ethnography is based almost entirely on fieldwork and requires the complete immersion of the anthropologist in the culture and everyday life of the people who are the subject of his study. Many ethnographers reside in the field for a year or more, learning the local language or dialect and, to the greatest extent possible, participating in everyday life while at the same time **trying** to maintain an observer's objective detachment. Ethnographic refusal is a practice by which researchers and research participants logether decide not to make particular information available for use within the academia. Engaging in ethnographic refusal as method, then, is intended as an ethical intervention that provides research participants the opportunity To dictate whether knowledge is to be made available within the academia among other places. Examples of ethnographic refusal include the presence of contamination (in places, bodies or animals), or access to knowledge that is considered sacred, amidst various other things.

    Polemic 2024 · Open Semi Finals · 2023-04-17

  • In the case of ethnographic research on remote and minority communities, THis HouSe supports the use of ethnographic refusal in postcolonial scholarship

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    Ethnography is a descriptive study of a particular human society and the process of making such a study. Contemporary ethnography is based almost entirely on fieldwork and requires the complete immersion of the anthropologist in the culture and everyday life of the people who are the subject of his study. Many ethnographers reside in the field for a year or more, learning the local language or dialect and, to the greatest extent possible, participating in everyday life while at the same time **trying** to maintain an observer's objective detachment. Ethnographic refusal is a practice by which researchers and research participants logether decide not to make particular information available for use within the academia. Engaging in ethnographic refusal as method, then, is intended as an ethical intervention that provides research participants the opportunity To dictate whether knowledge is to be made available within the academia among other places. Examples of ethnographic refusal include the presence of contamination (in places, bodies or animals), or access to knowledge that is considered sacred, amidst various other things.

    Polemic 2024 · Novice Finals · 2023-04-17

  • THIS HOUSE SUPPORTS THE SUB- CATEGORISATION OF OBCS

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    The National Commission for Backward Classes has proposed a draft suggesting to divide the Central list of OBCs into three groups and apportioning 27% quota among them as per their numerical strength. The EBCs would comprise the most disadvantaged communities: aboriginal tribes, denotified tribes, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes, groups whose traditional occupation was begging/pig- rearing, snake-charming, religious mendicants, agricultural laborers and boatmen among others. MBCs would comprise groups with “traditional occupation” like painting, doll-making, toddy tappers, oil pressing, silk-weavers, potters, sheep-rearing, jute-weaving, butchers, tailoring, fishing, gardening, barbers, dalit converts to Christianity. The third category would comprise the relatively advanced sections.

    Polemic 2024 · Round 3 · 2023-04-17

  • This house believes that the idea of coalition of extremes does more harm than good.

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    American Political Scientist Paul R. Brass, in the 1980s, coined the term 'coalition of extremes' to explain the social base of the Congress Party. He argued that the Congress in Uttar Pradesh has been surviving based on a 'coalition of extremes'. Three social classes, namely Dalits, Muslims and Brahmins formed this coalition.

    LSRPD 2023 · Novice Pre-Semifinals · 2023-04-14

  • That we, as an individual from a disadvantaged background, would embrace code-switching in the workplace.

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    Code-switching is the practice of changing your mannerisms, tone of voice, appearance, or switching between two dialects of one language (e.g. Australian English and Australian Aboriginal English) depending on the social context you are in.

    Monash Open 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-04-01

  • This house prefers a world where significant minority groups (e.g. Maori and Aboriginal populations in New Zealand and Australia; Catalonians in Spain; Nations within Great Britain) form their own sports teams rather than partake in the national teams of their country of residence.

    Colonel Henry Steel Olcott Memorial Debating Championship 2023 · Quarterfinals · 2023-03-24

  • This house believes that minorities should seek political representation through mainstream political parties, rather than parties based on minority identity

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    Tabtastic Spring 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-03-18

  • This house believes that minorities should seek political representation through mainstream political parties, rather than parties based on minority identity

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    Shareholder activism involves the owners of shares (whether individual or institutional investors) lobbying companies in which they have shares to improve their corporate behaviour. Divestment campaigns involve demanding investors to sell their shares in morally problematic industries.

    Tabtastic Spring 2023 · 1 · 2023-03-18

  • That we support major media companies (e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+) removing media that has harmful depictions of race, gender, sexuality, etc (eg. Gone with the Wind for featuring blackface, Grease for sexism, Disney films for cultural stereotypes) as opposed to putting a disclaimer about this content.

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    A 12-second, unskippable disclaimer put on some Disney films reads (in part): "This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now."

    Advanced Open 2023 · Round 8 · 2023-03-02

  • This House supports the characterisation of Urdu as a distinctly Muslim language

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    “Jashn-e-Rekhta is a three-day festival celebrated annually in Delhi under the aegis of the Rekhta Foundation, a not-for-profit organization devoted wholeheartedly to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu language, its literature and culture. Within the last four years, Jashn-e-Rekhta has left behind the trappings of a festival to emerge as an excellent celebration of Urdu, its rich heritage and eclectic art forms. The event includes splendid musical performances of ghazals and qawwalis by renowned artistes. Additional activities include dastangoi renditions, panel discussions, poetry recitations and enriching conversations with celebrities. Items decorated with calligraphy and other goods are also available and visitors can enjoy a variety of local as well as Middle Eastern cuisine at the food stalls. The festival has been graced by doyens of Urdu poetry and literature and also by people of eminence from the film, music and television industry. Owing to its uniqueness, Jashn-e-Rekhta has become one of the most popular literary and cultural events of our country.” - Jashn -e-Rekhta’s website

    Lloyd Parliamentary Debate · Round 1 · 2023-03-01

  • As a teacher from an underprivileged racial/ethnic minority, This House would artificially inflate the grades of students from similarly disadvantaged backgrounds

    Asian Online Debating Championship WSDC 2023 · Junior Semi Final · 2023-02-24