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Revisiting America’s Caste System (with Isabel Wilkerson)
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Caste, the Origins of Our Discontents
I was born in india and left the country when i was a year old. Came to the united states with my father and mother, who wanted to come to the us for a better life. I became really quite fascinated with the way that in english and coming from the casta aprese term "cast" That vocabulary is very familiar in india. It's an oddity and a weirdness over time that i think still kind of confuses people. The other thing you say about cast is, race is the front man for cast. What does that mean? It means that it is the most visible thing that we see. And as we were saying about how color is a fact
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