many. However, today the caste system has nothing but put India in a major international

crisis. Poverty, has swept over the nation and placed more than “15 million in the virtual

slavery of labor.” These lower caste people that form the majority of the population are

the “untouchables”. For years India has been a Hindu-dominated country. The Hindus are

set to believe that each and everyone is reborn or reincarnated to fulfill and correct their

past lives. With each reincarnation, they are one step closer to being “one” with Brahma

(god, in which they worship). The lives which they live is based on their Karma or the

negative or positive force based on the person’s actions. As virtuous and spiritual does

their religion seems, their country is in desperate need of economical help because of it. In

my perspective I do agree that the caste system is India’s moral Achilles’ heel. It will

continue being India’s weakness until something is done! India has to overcome this battle

and see that if something is not done by either the government or the people. This will

form into a bigger crisis and later resulting i

“Caste system is India’s Moral Achilles’ Heel. If only India’s government was not based

even Islam. But is it apartheid? No it isn’t. The Hindu religion clearly states that if you are

Hindu religious beliefs considered apartheid to most? Yes, for many the discrimination and

humiliation of being low castes have forced some to covert to Christianity, Buddhism and

How do upper-class citizens sleep at night knowing that they are weakening and

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