caste system

[ kast-sis-tuhm, kahst ]

noun

Origin of caste system

First recorded in 1810–20

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In India, people with darker skin were traditionally ranked lower in the caste system.
How digital beauty filters perpetuate colorism | Tate Ryan-Mosley | August 15, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
In other words, our racial caste system meant his choices—the roads on which he could walk through life—were profoundly limited, the racism of the state cherry-picking his options, some decent and some bad and some awful, since his birth.
My Father's Life Was Shaped by Racism. So Was His Death | Savala Nolan | July 16, 2021 | Time
He answered questions ranging from the caste system of major college athletics to his views, as someone who grew up in Australia, about racism in America.
Makur Maker’s basketball journey took a detour, but his story isn’t over | Jerry Brewer | April 11, 2021 | Washington Post
If races are our castes, then this makes sense, since—in a caste system—your status is mostly a function of your position.
Are Black Names ‘Weird,’ or Are You Just Racist? | Jamelle Bouie | September 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
But it also opens outward to offer a sharp look at the fatal codes of honor dominating the Austro-Hungarian military caste system.
The Kaffeehaus Canon | George Prochnik | December 31, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST

Everything is about access and the badge hierarchy at Davos would make the Indian caste system blush.
Gal With a Suitcase | Jolie Hunt | January 31, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
It is not possible to deny of a nation that was capable of producing the caste system its wonderful power of organisation.
Third class in Indian railways | Mahatma Gandhi
Nevertheless, it contains the great text on the caste-system, the fulcrum of priestly pre-eminence.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies | Robert Gordon Latham
The cruel and iniquitous sex relations of the races in the South has grown out of this caste system.
The Ultimate Criminal | Archibald H. Grimke
There is no impassable barrier between the two classes, however, as there is in the caste system.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt
Foreign travel has also jarred the caste system rather severely.
Where Half The World Is Waking Up | Clarence Poe

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