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caste system
[ kast sis-tuhm, kahst ]
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Origin of caste system1
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If races are our castes, then this makes sense, since—in a caste system—your status is mostly a function of your position.
But it also opens outward to offer a sharp look at the fatal codes of honor dominating the Austro-Hungarian military caste system.
Everything is about access and the badge hierarchy at Davos would make the Indian caste system blush.
It is not possible to deny of a nation that was capable of producing the caste system its wonderful power of organisation.
Nevertheless, it contains the great text on the caste-system, the fulcrum of priestly pre-eminence.
The cruel and iniquitous sex relations of the races in the South has grown out of this caste system.
There is no impassable barrier between the two classes, however, as there is in the caste system.
Foreign travel has also jarred the caste system rather severely.
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