The Racial Caste System

Women have been downgraded and mistreated because of their gender. From birth, Women and Men grew up with very different rules to follow. Men were raised to be the head of the house and do work for a living. Growing up as little girls, women were taught to raise their kids and make food for their families. “Strong family structures were necessary because the family was the basis for all other institutions. The government, church, and community all worked through the nuclear family unit.”(“Gender and

In this articles the author is argued by listing points to show or to prove women are treated with injustice and that they are not treated equality to men,

Is racism dead? In “The Rebirth of Caste” by Michelle Alexander, Alexander talks about the evolution that racism has gone through to become what is today. Racism has evolved throughout the years from slavery to segregation to criminalization to mass incarceration, all while many have become so oblivious to the issue, that many don’t even realize that such a problem still exists today. In “The Curious Grammar of Police Shootings” by Radley Balko, Balko talks about how politicians and police use syntax and grammar to deflect blame from themselves to primarily African-Americans or Hispanics. Alexander defines the new racial caste system as a system that through institutionalized racism has consistently put disenfranchised African-Americans at the bottom of a new caste system. Balko sheds light on the fact that police are not held accountable for their actions and that the racial stigmas of the 21st century still cause many African-Americans and minorities to face discrimination from the very people who had sworn to protect them. Alexander’s arguments support Balko’s claim through the inherent use of historical context, formal tones, and persuasive language to show how racism has continued for far too long.

All over the globe, violence and discrimination against women and girls violates their human rights and severely compromised their perception of equality. Culture, false beliefs and ancient traditions, such as early marriage, the nuclear family, gender-based discrimination, which lead to violence against women and femicide, destroyed young girls ' mental and physical wellbeing and self-esteem by supporting the ideas that gender-based discrimination and inequality is acceptable in our societies.

Gender inequality has engulfed the United States and placed copious varying roles onto the male and female sexes. According to Leila Aboulela, Minaret, “All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.” Discrimination places women into different roles and takes away numerous privileges. However in America today after more than a century of struggles by dedicated activists who fought to alter these ideals and gain further rights, the perception of women in society and their contributions to society have been greatly transformed.

be more expensive, more overcrowded, more militarized, and the most aggressive in the country’s history. It is fair to say the system is racist, but even if we took all people of color out of prison, leaving only the white majority, we would still be over-incarcerated. Our nation would still face awful police brutality, and we would still need to reform our corrupted criminal justice system.

simply took over for slavery. Enforced by government, established in courts, and carried out by law officers, forcing a continuation of an already well-established racial caste system on nearly every aspect of American life.

Do you want to create a sense of stability like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley had in the World State Society. To create this stability in the World State Society they had been brainwashing the citizens. Although it’s great to have stability, the way the World State Society is doing it is the wrong way to do so. As an effect, people like John think that the World State Society feels fake, wrong and unrealistic. He may think this way due to his reputation as the savage from the savage reservation. The reservation is where people are sent to for not abiding by the rules, these are put into place for the use of soma to hide the truth and to mask true emotions. The World State Society is not wrong for wanting stability but the way they are making

The caste system began around 1000 B.C.E. to distinguish among the different individuals in early Aryan society, such as the warrior elite, priests, ordinary tribesmen, and conquered subjects. In the caste system there are four groups, reffered to as varna, Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra. The Brahman were priests, the Kshatriya were warriors and officials, the Vaishya were merchants and artisans, and the Shudra were peasants and laborers. Those who were not included in a caste were known as outcastes. These people belonged to no caste due to them either entering this social division later than others or violating rituals and losing their caste status. The outcastes were disdained because they made a living by foul jobs such as dressing

within our nation’s borders, including poor whites, who are often pitted against poor people of color, the collapse of mass incarceration will not mean the death of racial caste in America. Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge … No task is more urgent for racial justice today than ensuring thatAmerica’s current racial caste system is its

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”- Malcolm X. These words exquisitely describe what was wrong with the society in Brave New World. From the moment people are born they are forced into one of 5 predetermined castes. There are groups of people that are the complete opposite of the society that is first introduced that are recognized as savages and are held on reservations. The few people that feel they don’t conform to the ideals of the society are often exiled in order to ensure the population stays tantamount to their assigned caste. The public views this society as perfect when in actuality it is the complete opposite.

Thus, all three factors depend on each other to determine how much authority she has in society. It is not just one straightforward list of rankings. Therefore, in her society and from her point of view race, gender and class are all interlocked within each other. Along with that, these three factors cannot be separated. In the article it states that the interlocking oppression of race, gender and class by colored women were critical of Marxist/Socialist, feminist and anti-racist traditions (Stasiulis, 29). This ties in with the author’s argument because a woman of color covers all 3 factors: race (color), gender (women) and class (for them to be oppressed, they obviously had to be of lower class). For women to be oppressed one must look at all three-aspects. When women are oppressed, it ignores a feminist, anti-racist, and socialist tradition; which covers all 3 factors being interconnected: gender, race, and class. Due to the fact if one of the factors was misused then that means that they all are being misused. The first theme of “Prominence of Race” states that in the intersectional theorizing, racism, class and sexism have been misused and taken advantage of in the interconnecting system (Stasiulis, 29). This shows that if class was misused then racism and sexism are misused as well. Looking back at the Brahmin women we can see that her class was taken advantage of therefore, her sex and race were

Oppression in India has been happening for over a thousand years with little to no action being done to stop the caste discrimination. There has been oppression occurring in India against Dalits, people below the caste system who are also known as Untouchables, and to lower caste people because of their culture and their religion, Hinduism. In order to rid caste discrimination facing Dalits and lower castes in India, people of India must know and evaluate the history of the oppression, the current situation India is in, and what has been done, needs to be done to solve this issue.

Social status and structures have definitely shaped the construction and experience of gender inequality. Men and women are constantly analyzed, compared, and grouped together in society. The result of this yields discrepancies in how sexes are viewed by society. Throughout my examination and explanation of gender inequality, I concluded both men and women are victims to gender inequality.

The caste system is a social structure that is determined by birth. A caste system stratifies the whole society. The caste system is very much embedded with economic particularly in India. The poor gets poorer and the richer gets richer. In Nepal, the caste system appeared in the ancient era. Sanskrit scripture describes that the caste system has been in practice through ‘Second millennium BC’ (Gellner, D. N. 2007) that divides the social groups based on Hinduism and feudalism.