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Caste System in Hinduism

Summary

The Caste System in India is a religiously grounded hierarchical scheme that seems to impact the lives of all Indian people. It is a very old system that classifies people based on the environment in which they were born. Men and women that are born into the lowest caste tend to stay in that caste for their entire lives. It was initially spawned from the belief that all men and women are born with differing levels of emotional character, intelligence, and skills. In an idealistic sense, each caste is considered to be equal; in practice, their has been heavy discrimination based on the Caste system.