Caste
noun
A social class or level in society that a person is born into and cannot change.
In some cultures, a person's caste can determine their job, who they can marry, and their social status.
Often appears as...
- caste system
- lower caste
noun
A group of types of insects or animals that have a specific role in their society.
In a colony of ants, different castes include workers, soldiers, and the queen.
Often appears as...
- worker caste
- soldier caste
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Technical
noun
A form or mould into which liquid is poured to make a certain shape when it hardens.
The artist created a bronze statue from a caste.
Often appears as...
- bronze caste
- plaster caste
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Technical
noun
A social class or level in society that a person is born into and cannot change.
In some cultures, a person's caste can determine their job, who they can marry, and their social status.
Often appears as...
- caste system
- lower caste
noun
A group of types of insects or animals that have a specific role in their society.
In a colony of ants, different castes include workers, soldiers, and the queen.
Often appears as...
- worker caste
- soldier caste
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A form or mould into which liquid is poured to make a certain shape when it hardens.
The artist created a bronze statue from a caste.
Often appears as...
- bronze caste
- plaster caste
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Societal Restrictions
Caste often implies hereditary social restrictions and roles in certain societies.
He was born into the potter's caste, traditionally making pottery.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Sensitivity
Using 'caste' may be sensitive due to historical discrimination; understand local contexts.
While discussing societal structures, tread carefully around the topic of caste.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Interchangeable
'Caste' is not a direct substitute for 'class' and carries a more rigid connotation.
Unlike a social class, one cannot leave their caste by acquiring wealth or education.
Pro Tip 1/3Societal Restrictions
Caste often implies hereditary social restrictions and roles in certain societies.
He was born into the potter's caste, traditionally making pottery.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Sensitivity
Using 'caste' may be sensitive due to historical discrimination; understand local contexts.
While discussing societal structures, tread carefully around the topic of caste.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Interchangeable
'Caste' is not a direct substitute for 'class' and carries a more rigid connotation.
Unlike a social class, one cannot leave their caste by acquiring wealth or education.
Pro Tip 1/3Societal Restrictions
Caste often implies hereditary social restrictions and roles in certain societies.
He was born into the potter's caste, traditionally making pottery.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Sensitivity
Using 'caste' may be sensitive due to historical discrimination; understand local contexts.
While discussing societal structures, tread carefully around the topic of caste.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Interchangeable
'Caste' is not a direct substitute for 'class' and carries a more rigid connotation.
Unlike a social class, one cannot leave their caste by acquiring wealth or education.
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A kinder, gentler...
One of these, and it's paradoxical, because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers. Never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their lifespan. We're told, from many sources, that anyone can achieve anything. We've done away with the caste system,
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How city mayors are...
of the world it's not just within cities it's between countries still and so if we don't have a just economy um the social fabric will tear apart as well whether that's based on racial prejudice and racism that's historic whether it's based on economic discrimination and caste systems whether it's looking at the way that the economy
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Vermicomposting: How...
only to small worm bins, it's an emerging entrepreneurial enterprise. Large-scale facilities convert bulk organic waste and even manure into rich, black castings called black gold. Its value as a soil additive is unparalleled, and it can help plants resist harmful pathogens.
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Francis de los Reyes:...
we are extending the life of these pits so that we don't have to resort to quick solutions that don't really make sense. I believe that access to adequate sanitation is a basic human right. We need to stop the practice of lower castes and lower-status people
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Why humans run the world...
of the process? Again, it's not a prophecy; it's seeing all kinds of possibilities before us. One possibility is this creation of a new massive class of useless people. Another possibility is the division of humankind into different biological castes,
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Why should you read “The...
In the novel, she interrogates the culture of her native India, including its social mores and colonial history. One of her focuses is the caste system, a way of classifying people by hereditary social class that is thousands of years old.
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How women in rural India...
having a big cutout at the entrance of the village. When I went to her house, I was even more amazed because upper caste leaders -- men -- were sitting in the house, in her house, and having chai and water, which is very rare in India.
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The lies we tell about...
caste Hindus killing landless peasants and we have a lot of personal scores being settled now the overarching body the one that permissioned all of these killings was the right wing of the military and that was led by the US
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Kailash Satyarthi: How...
I was barred from entering into my own kitchen and my own dining room, my utensils were separated. But the night when I was angry, they wanted to outcaste me. But I decided to outcaste the entire caste system.
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Cremation PIPE National...
to die and to be reborn into a higher caste for now the fires will continue to burn and in the city of death life goes
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A kinder, gentler...
One of these, and it's paradoxical, because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers. Never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their lifespan. We're told, from many sources, that anyone can achieve anything. We've done away with the caste system,
Video examples
How city mayors are...
of the world it's not just within cities it's between countries still and so if we don't have a just economy um the social fabric will tear apart as well whether that's based on racial prejudice and racism that's historic whether it's based on economic discrimination and caste systems whether it's looking at the way that the economy
Video examples
Vermicomposting: How...
only to small worm bins, it's an emerging entrepreneurial enterprise. Large-scale facilities convert bulk organic waste and even manure into rich, black castings called black gold. Its value as a soil additive is unparalleled, and it can help plants resist harmful pathogens.
Video examples
Francis de los Reyes:...
we are extending the life of these pits so that we don't have to resort to quick solutions that don't really make sense. I believe that access to adequate sanitation is a basic human right. We need to stop the practice of lower castes and lower-status people
Video examples
Why humans run the world...
of the process? Again, it's not a prophecy; it's seeing all kinds of possibilities before us. One possibility is this creation of a new massive class of useless people. Another possibility is the division of humankind into different biological castes,
Video examples
Why should you read “The...
In the novel, she interrogates the culture of her native India, including its social mores and colonial history. One of her focuses is the caste system, a way of classifying people by hereditary social class that is thousands of years old.
Video examples
How women in rural India...
having a big cutout at the entrance of the village. When I went to her house, I was even more amazed because upper caste leaders -- men -- were sitting in the house, in her house, and having chai and water, which is very rare in India.
Video examples
The lies we tell about...
caste Hindus killing landless peasants and we have a lot of personal scores being settled now the overarching body the one that permissioned all of these killings was the right wing of the military and that was led by the US
Video examples
Kailash Satyarthi: How...
I was barred from entering into my own kitchen and my own dining room, my utensils were separated. But the night when I was angry, they wanted to outcaste me. But I decided to outcaste the entire caste system.
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Cremation PIPE National...
to die and to be reborn into a higher caste for now the fires will continue to burn and in the city of death life goes
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Michael Eric Dyson
American Author
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.
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Isabel Wilkerson
American Journalist
Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.
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Ram Nath Kovind
Indian Politician
A tradition I remember from my childhood was that when there was a wedding in any one family, the entire village shared the responsibility and contributed. Regardless of the caste or community, the bride became the daughter of not just a single family but of the entire village.
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Honeysuckle Weeks
British Actress
My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregnant with me and they decided to make actors out of their children. You need your parents' support if you're going to do it. Otherwise who's going to ferry you to castings?
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Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian Author
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
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Chloe Sevigny
American Actress
I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.
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Hima Das
Indian Athlete
I want for every child - regardless of their background, gender, caste, etc. - to be able to access schools that are safe and supportive so that they can learn and thrive.
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Anubhav Sinha
Indian Director
I am from a very vague caste. I don't belong to any of the four. I am kayastha. They are well read, largely clerks so they get treated respectfully.
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Sargent Shriver
American Politician
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
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Nagma
Indian Politician
It is not only in Meerut but entire U.P. where caste equation has phenomenal influence on politics.
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Michael Eric Dyson
American Author
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.
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Isabel Wilkerson
American Journalist
Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.
Quote examples
Ram Nath Kovind
Indian Politician
A tradition I remember from my childhood was that when there was a wedding in any one family, the entire village shared the responsibility and contributed. Regardless of the caste or community, the bride became the daughter of not just a single family but of the entire village.
Quote examples
Honeysuckle Weeks
British Actress
My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregnant with me and they decided to make actors out of their children. You need your parents' support if you're going to do it. Otherwise who's going to ferry you to castings?
Quote examples
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian Author
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
Quote examples
Chloe Sevigny
American Actress
I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.
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Hima Das
Indian Athlete
I want for every child - regardless of their background, gender, caste, etc. - to be able to access schools that are safe and supportive so that they can learn and thrive.
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Anubhav Sinha
Indian Director
I am from a very vague caste. I don't belong to any of the four. I am kayastha. They are well read, largely clerks so they get treated respectfully.
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Sargent Shriver
American Politician
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
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Nagma
Indian Politician
It is not only in Meerut but entire U.P. where caste equation has phenomenal influence on politics.
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