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A caste system generally reflects different class levels within a race rather than between races. The correct term would be an enduring racist system.
A caste system generally reflects different class levels within a race rather than between races. The correct term would be an enduring racist system.
>"Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries." Throughout human history, three caste systems have stood out. The lingering, millenniums-long caste system of India. The tragically accelerated, chilling and officially vanquished caste system of Nazi Germany. And the shape-shifting, unspoken, race-based caste pyramid in the United States. Each version relied on stigmatizing those deemed inferior to justify the dehumanization necessary to keep the lowest-ranked people at the bottom and to rationalize the protocols of enforcement. A caste system endures because it is often justified as divine will, originating from sacred text or the presumed laws of nature, reinforced throughout the culture and passed down through the generations. Caste and race are neither synonymous nor mutually exclusive. They can and do coexist in the same culture and serve to reinforce each other. Race, in the United States, is the visible agent of the unseen force of caste. Caste is the bones, race the skin. Race is what we can see, the physical traits that have been given arbitrary meaning and become shorthand for who a person is. Caste is the powerful infrastructure that holds each group in its place. Its very invisibility is what gives it power and longevity. And though it may move in and out of consciousness, though it may flare and reassert itself in times of upheaval and recede in times of relative calm, it is an ever-present through line in the country’s operation. Caste is rigid and deep; race is fluid and superficial, subject to periodic redefinition to meet the needs of the dominant caste in what is now the United States. While the requirements to qualify as white have changed over the centuries, the fact of a dominant caste has remained constant from its inception — whoever fit the definition of white, at whatever point in history, was granted the legal rights and privileges of the dominant caste. Perhaps more critical and tragic, at the other end of the ladder, the subordinated caste, too, has been fixed from the beginning as the psychological floor beneath which all other castes cannot fall.
>"Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries." Throughout human history, three caste systems have stood out. The lingering, millenniums-long caste system of India. The tragically accelerated, chilling and officially vanquished caste system of Nazi Germany. And the shape-shifting, unspoken, race-based caste pyramid in the United States. Each version relied on stigmatizing those deemed inferior to justify the dehumanization necessary to keep the lowest-ranked people at the bottom and to rationalize the protocols of enforcement. A caste system endures because it is often justified as divine will, originating from sacred text or the presumed laws of nature, reinforced throughout the culture and passed down through the generations. Caste and race are neither synonymous nor mutually exclusive. They can and do coexist in the same culture and serve to reinforce each other. Race, in the United States, is the visible agent of the unseen force of caste. Caste is the bones, race the skin. Race is what we can see, the physical traits that have been given arbitrary meaning and become shorthand for who a person is. Caste is the powerful infrastructure that holds each group in its place. Its very invisibility is what gives it power and longevity. And though it may move in and out of consciousness, though it may flare and reassert itself in times of upheaval and recede in times of relative calm, it is an ever-present through line in the country’s operation. Caste is rigid and deep; race is fluid and superficial, subject to periodic redefinition to meet the needs of the dominant caste in what is now the United States. While the requirements to qualify as white have changed over the centuries, the fact of a dominant caste has remained constant from its inception — whoever fit the definition of white, at whatever point in history, was granted the legal rights and privileges of the dominant caste. Perhaps more critical and tragic, at the other end of the ladder, the subordinated caste, too, has been fixed from the beginning as the psychological floor beneath which all other castes cannot fall.
Very thought provoking, although I feel the comparison with the caste system in India is lazy. And calling Nazi Germany a caste system is somewhat an understatement, it was genocide!
Very thought provoking, although I feel the comparison with the caste system in India is lazy. And calling Nazi Germany a caste system is somewhat an understatement, it was genocide!
>"Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries."
>"Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries."
The America is well settled and Most developing country. But only thing that Lowers it's pride is the racism amoung White and black which is running as usual from the past days. I am surprised about listening that it's still same inspite of such a educated persons. Now i think the racism will end there and America can be the dreamland of more peoples.
The America is well settled and Most developing country. But only thing that Lowers it's pride is the racism amoung White and black which is running as usual from the past days. I am surprised about listening that it's still same inspite of such a educated persons. Now i think the racism will end there and America can be the dreamland of more peoples.
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