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There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years and years, were utterly predictable to one another: they took for granted attitudes, character shadings, even gestures, as having been repeated in each generation and refined by time. (source)caste system = a system of social ranking
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The institution of a legal, government-sanctioned racial caste system was overturned in 1994 with the first democratic elections, but its effects still haunted the country.† (source)
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"Says the slave-driver of the caste system," huffed the imam.† (source)
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It's part of why the caste system is so unfair.† (source)
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We have created a new caste system that forces thousands of people into homelessness, bans them from living with their families and in their communities, and renders them virtually unemployable.† (source)
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Because early Hawaii had a strict caste system, keeping the nobles and commoners from mingling, the best surf spots and the best hardwood surfboards were the domain of the "kings."† (source)
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Even before Plato's time the Hindu caste system had the same tripartite division between the auxiliary caste (or priest caste), the arrior caste, and the laborer caste.† (source)caste system = a system of social ranking
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But the first grade was divided into a rigid caste system by the ancient teacher, and I was placed clear across the room from her.† (source)
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"Lineage affiliations," writes the scholar Rene Lemarchand, "could rectify and even reverse the formal rank-ordering established through the caste system."† (source)
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In India they have something called the caste system.† (source)
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It's a perfect way of maintaining the caste system and ensuring Deicratic control.† (source)
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He had a caste system of his own: to him, the Taggart children were not Jim and Dagny, but Dagny and Eddie.† (source)
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Or the Caste System.† (source)
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rather, then forty-seven and then forty-six, since it was '64 and then '65 and the starved and ragged remnant of an army having retreated across Alabama and Georgia and into Carolina, swept onward not by a victorious army behind it but rather by a mounting tide of the names of lost battles from either side—Chickamauga and Franklin, Vicksburg and Corinth and Atlanta—battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been generals, who were generals not through training in contemporary methods or aptitude for learning them, but by the divine right to say 'Go there' conferred upon them by an absolute caste system;† (source)
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His idea of their eminence was grossly exaggerated; the town had grown rapidly from a straggling village— it had few families as old as the Pentlands, and, like all resort towns, its caste system was liquidly variable, depending chiefly upon wealth, ambition, and boldness.† (source)
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"Oh, it isn't that I mind the glittering caste system," admitted Amory.† (source)
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