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In America there is no system in place today that forces people to remain separate or keeps one CLASS subservient to another.

If you were born the son of a street sweeper, but excelled, you would be fully accepted by your peers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility

Not so in India. The Caste system freezes everyone in place for their life time.

For someone to move from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_caste to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_caste is denied.

http://chng.it/kJphRWWBRr

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