Michael Eric Dyson

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.

American Author

Isabel Wilkerson

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.

American Journalist

Ram Nath Kovind

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.

Indian Politician

Honeysuckle Weeks

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?

British Actress

Salvatore Quasimodo

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.

Italian Author

Chloe Sevigny

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.

American Actress

Hima Das

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.

Indian Athlete

Anubhav Sinha

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.

Indian Director

Sargent Shriver

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

American Politician

Nagma

It is not only in Meerut but entire U.P. where caste equation has phenomenal influence on politics.

Caste often implies hereditary social restrictions and roles in certain societies.

Societal Restrictions

Using 'caste' may be sensitive due to historical discrimination; understand local contexts.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Caste' is not a direct substitute for 'class' and carries a more rigid connotation.

Not Interchangeable

In biology, 'caste' refers to specialized members with particular roles within a group.

Specialized Roles

Different castes in animals show distinct behaviors or physical traits suitable for their roles.

Distinct Behaviors

In artwork, 'caste' refers to making sculptures using a mould and hardening substance.

Sculpture Creation

'Caste' highlights the technique of creating artwork rather than the artwork itself.

Artistic Technique

Using a caste allows for multiple copies of the same artwork to be produced.

Replication Process

 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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 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

How city mayors are...

 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.

Vermicomposting: How...

 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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 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,

Why humans run the world...

 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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 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.

How women in rural India...

 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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 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.

Kailash Satyarthi: How...

 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

Caste

A social class or level in society that a person is born into and cannot change.

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A group of types of insects or animals that have a specific role in their society.

Often appears as...

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A form or mould into which liquid is poured to make a certain shape when it hardens.

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