Why “caste” is being discussed
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I did not imply that, you misinterpreted what I said, presumably due to preconceived bias. > Reality is that every country has its own way of sorting wealth to the most favored.…
by soulofmischief · Sep 27, 2026
Yes. You implied that the caste system was somehow unique to India. Reality is that every country has its own way of sorting wealth to the most favored.
by brookst · Sep 27, 2026
I appreciate your response. > people bring up the caste system as if it's the cause of every issue there or as if other countries don't have similar problems This is a straw man…
by soulofmischief · Sep 27, 2026
Reservation is one of the easiest way to play vote bank politics. It does not benefit anyone other than the politicians and the rich lower caste people.
by anukin · Sep 26, 2026
The USA has historically had a two tier system enshrined in law: one for "whites" and one for "coloreds". (There are two sets of bathrooms in the Whitehouse!) Just because the l…
by jiggawatts · Sep 26, 2026
Nobody is defending caste system. Its bad, and its already illegal as it should be. People are just calling out the hypocrisy when its implied that this kind of stratification i…
by drTobiasFunke · Sep 26, 2026
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A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system. Within such a system, individuals are expected to marry exclusively within the same caste (endogamy), follow lifestyles often linked to a particular occupation, hold a ritual status observed within a hierarchy, and interact with others based on cultural notions of exclusion, with certain castes considered as either more pure or more polluted than others. The term "caste" is also applied to morphological groupings in eusocial insects such as ants, bees, and termites. Read more on Wikipedia