SEATTLE -- The Seattle City Council on Tuesday added caste to the city’s anti-discrimination laws, becoming the first U. city and the first in the world to pass such a law outside South Asia to specifically ban caste discrimination","articleSection":"us","metadata":{"timestamp":"2023-02-21T16:53:00Z","dateModified":"2023-02-22T13:53:34Z","sourceLine":"ABC News","shortLink":"","keywords":"Discrimination, Asian Americans, Politics, Law enforcement, Religion, General news","title":"Seattle becomes 1st US city to ban caste discrimination","description":"The Seattle City Council has added caste to the city’s anti-discrimination laws, becoming the first U. Harvard University instituted caste protections for student workers in 2021 as part of its contract with its graduate student union