
Things have improved — rural Chinese can move to cities now. But "being allowed to move there" and "having equal status once you're there" are two different things.
Moving to a small town is easy. Moving to Beijing or Shanghai is not — and the part that's truly locked isn't housing, it's this: a child without a Beijing hukou cannot sit the college entrance exam in Beijing, no matter how many years the parents pay taxes or whether they own a home. The kid has to go back to the registered hometown to take it.
You compare it to rural Americans moving to the city once they have money. But an American who moves to New York can enroll their kid in a New York school the next day. A Chinese person who moves to Beijing cannot. You can move your body in; you can't move your status in. That's the difference.
(Minor note: Modi is OBC and a Prime Minister — not a Dalit, and not a president.)
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