Sample Sentences forcaste system (editor-reviewed)
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At that company, the executives and the hourly workers seemed to belong to different social castes, rarely eating or even talking together.castes = rigid social level or group
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Even though caste discrimination is illegal in India, some people still treat those from lower castes as if they are less worthy.castes = hereditary social group in India
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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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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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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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Wherever he went he carried with him the mark of his forbidden caste—long, tangled and dirty hair.† (source)
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But in a hive polyarchy, some castes are valuable or so our Psych Warfare people hoped.† (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)
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They have been told from birth they are of a different caste and have a higher calling.† (source)
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In class, he carefully transcribes the outline from the blackboard: Population divided into castes (social class, rank) 1.† (source)
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Or the Caste System.† (source)
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Being Tina's first boyfriend kept Park out of the lowest neighborhood caste.† (source)
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All ages, all sizes, all ethnic castes.† (source)
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It's a perfect way of maintaining the caste system and ensuring Deicratic control.† (source)
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They were also demanding that Untouchables no longer be addressed by their caste names.† (source)
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