The history of the caste system is very curious. It is a very old system. In fact, it was developed more than 3,000 years ago. Aryan priests had created it to divide society. This happened in India (Encarta). The original name for this system was jati, meaning groups related to birth. When Portuguese explorers came to India, they misinterpreted the word as caste, meaning a system of classes (Nyrop 221). This system is only practiced by Hindus, but since most of India was Hindu, it got into the law (Encarta). Obviously, only Hindus had to

The untouchables almost do not exist. There are many reasons for this. Even so, they make up much of the Hindu population. There are ancient scriptures that the Hindus believe in. In these scriptures, there is no mention about untouchables anywhere (Nyrop 222). This is why the untouchables have no color assigned to them. One theory of how untouchables came to be is that the Sudras, the unskilled laborers, decided that "dirty work" was not for them, so they called the polluted laborers untouchables (Wolpert 32). Untouchables really should not exist. In fact, in 1949, untouchability was outlawed, but the social system still keeps them separated and uneducated. Right now, in the bigger cities, untouchability does not exist, and if an untouchable went into a big city, they would move up a caste to the Sudras (Benderly 198).

The social classes in American society are very much like the caste system, but may not have been around quite as long as the caste system. However, there are three main things that make the caste system very similar to American society. Many things happened in the caste system's history long ago. There are many distinct castes in the caste systems that have occupations and colors assigned to them. Untouchables are not officially in a caste. Societies in American divide very similarly. American societies do not really have priests and teachers in the most respected level, but do have a most respected social level. That would be the government. The priests and teachers are actually pretty low in American social system. They make perhaps one of the lowest salaries.

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