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They were defecting a caste system known as Jim Crow.
This caste system was so arcane that it was actually against the law for a black person and a white person to merely play checkers together in Birmingham.
This caste system was so arcane that in courtrooms throughout the South there was actually a black Bible and an altogether separate white Bible to swear to tell the truth on in court.
The very word of God was segregated in the caste system of the Jim Crow South.
Such that every four days, somewhere in the American South, every four days an African American was lynched for some perceived breach of protocol in this caste system in the decades leading up to the start of the Great Migration.
This caste system had been put in place for many, many reasons.
This Great Migration was the first time in American history that the lowest caste people signaled that they had options and were willing to take them.
Secondly, this Great Migration was the first time in American history that the lowest caste people actually had a chance to choose for themselves what they would do with their God-given talents and where they would pursue them.
She's Dalit; she comes from an untouchable caste, but she does artificial insemination in goats.
It is a very male-dominated profession and it is all the more difficult for Sunita because Sunita comes from an untouchable caste.
Upper caste leaders do not go to an untouchable's house and have chai or water.
Sunita broke centuries-old caste conditioning in India.
I knew, as perhaps many of you might know, that in India, a large number of people are born in the lowest segment of caste.
So I was very impressed with the leaders of my town who were speaking very highly against the caste system and untouchability and talking of Gandhian ideals.
But I decided to outcaste the entire caste system.
And that was possible because the beginning would have been to change the family name, or surname, because in India, most of the family names are caste names.
And these could be about Adam and Eve or about the supremacy of a caste or gender or about the vitality of a supposed race or about the past glories of an empire or civilization or about a piece of land that some imagined deity has gifted.
One of her focuses is the caste system, a way of classifying people by hereditary social class that is thousands of years old.
Though the caste system was Constitutionally abolished in 1950, it continued to shape social life in India, routinely marginalizing people of lower castes.
In the novel, Rahel and Estha have a close relationship with Velutha, a worker in their family’s pickle factory and member of the so-called “untouchable” caste.
Because of the historical Indian background, in the caste system, and because of the fact that there have been many people who have been left out in the cold, a lot of the politics is about how to make sure that we'll address that.
A lot of the Indian problems are related to the ideology of caste and other things.
Charles Eames: In India, those without, and the lowest in caste, eat very often, particularly in southern India, they eat off of a banana leaf.
We've done away with the caste system, we are now in a system where anyone can rise to any position they please.
And it's the nationalism of an idea that essentially says you can endure differences of caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, custom and costume, consonant, for that matter, and still rally around a consensus.
The film should have at least tried to cover larger topics, such as race, ageism, the burgeoning gay "caste system" based on wealth, body image, and the rise of the "clones", discrimination of sub-groups within the community, and the ability to grow a decent mustache (which was very important in the 70s!).
If she is going to succeed in life, she will have to overcome the liabilities of low caste and poverty.
Keeping the subjectivity aside, there is no doubt that Phoolan's character from a young girl of 8, who is married off by her father to clear a debt(pun intended), to a gang leader who goes on to become a leader of the lower caste, has evolved into a champion in her own right.
This watered-down social commentary about the caste system among NYC snobs and their domestic help is as esoteric as the book that inspired it.
The Hays Code sought to make films more caste.
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