caste
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Caste barriers, though far from erased, have reduced.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
A brief primer: Caste can be seen as an artificial hierarchy that helps determine status or respect.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2024
Caste is a hierarchical system of group stratification with roots tracing back to Hinduism as practiced in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization.
From Slate • Sep. 21, 2023
Caste discrimination: A new bill would make California the first state to add caste to its nondiscrimination laws, The Associated Press reports.
From New York Times • May 31, 2023
“Or the Caste System. Constantly proposed, constantly rejected. There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.”
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Vocabulary lists containing caste
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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Human Geography - Middle School
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