RE: Are We Really Free?

Thank you for reading, and for such a thoughtful comment. A lot of what you mentioned is real, and some of it sits in that gap between law and daily life here. Discrimination was abolished constitutionally back in 1950, but a few thousand years of social habit don't disappear because a law says so. In cities it barely shows up day to day, especially among younger people; in villages it still shapes marriage, land and local politics. Which is really the same thing you said at the end - freedom on paper doesn't mean much if someone's conditions haven't changed.