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They Aren't Less

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The people around me have always been my heart and soul. I have grown up in a joint family, and have inculcated a lot of family values from my great grandparents and grandparents. But not to forget, since my childhood I have always been with domestic help and they have always been family to me. Today morning a question striked my mind. Aren’t the domestic helpers or the lower class workers human? Why do we treat them as they aren't? Why do we name them as molkarni, kamvali bai, bai, etc. Is calling them mavshi, didi, bhaiya or kaka that difficult? Why don't we visit their houses the way we visit our friends' houses? Does the size of the house or the bank balance always matter the place where we visit or spend quality time? Does that mean, they are lower class and earn less, so they aren't good people? I don't understand what's the harm in being friendly with the people who work for us. They are actually the backbone of every house where they work. They should be