Caste
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Caste
Caste System: A Veiled Apartheid and an Overt Violation of Human Rights
Saturday, February 13, 2010
By Fahima Vakalia
Caste System: A Veiled Apartheid and an Overt Violation of Human Rights
“We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
William Faulkner
The Human race is homogenous enough for rights to be formulated to ensure an individual’s existence with a ‘standard of adequate quality’; however, factors like political movements, culture and past history can become dependent...
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