caste
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7.2
- noun
- /kæst/
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casta
- Not within the structures of caste, not within the confines of privileges offered and privileges withheld.
- caste system
- lower caste
- gender and caste
If you don't, it sets up a caste system, and that caste system is lethal to democracy.
- If you don't, it sets up a caste system, and that caste system is lethal to democracy.
- And the only way you can get above that class or caste system is through education and opportunity.
- It started from the caste system in India, right where the goal was to get your poor daughter to somehow marry a guy from one level up.
- And there's this an image that I show of Dali protesters talk having saying caste is evil.
- If she was born in a lower caste is because of what she did in her previous life.
- Do you think people should have the right to the liberty to choose their own profession or either born into some caste that predetermines what they do?
- Just because Rome was a caste society doesn't mean that all the philosophers perfectly conformed to that cast.
- But in North Korea, interesting enough, they may be they have a caste system.
- It's like family caste system, three big categories, warrior, wavering and hostile.
- We're maybe supposed to be questioning the caste system and monarchies, but then we aren't really at all.
- It's about social levels and stuff and we should see it through those through that prism versus just racism where we can start to heal if we see it as a caste system.
Examples
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You are forbidden from mixing with the warrior caste.
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In India, we have the caste system.
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And the only way you can get above that class or caste system is through education and opportunity.
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But here, it's a total caste system.
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And in India, you know, caste system is not great for many reasons, but everybody has a place, Everybody belongs.
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Each princely state had its own traditions, caste, backgrounds, and leadership.
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Arranged marriages perpetuate religious and caste divisions.
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They have a caste system and the smartest person gets to the top.
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It started from the caste system in India, right where the goal was to get your poor daughter to somehow marry a guy from one level up.
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In India, the caste system creates significant social divisions and restrictions based on birth.
Synonyms
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1.8
A group of people or things with a shared quality
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3.0
A group of people with similar money, jobs, or education
Antonyms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Caste comes from the Portuguese word casta, meaning 'breed' or 'family line', and from the Latin word castus meaning 'pure'. So a caste is like a family line you are born into, which is why the word means a social group with fixed ranks and rules.