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mitxela 11 hours ago

Could be because they're used to it. Every country has a caste system of some sort.

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irishcoffee 8 hours ago | parent [-]

“Of some sort” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. How many countries have a legal caste system?

Comparing the lack of a legal caste system because “of some sort” to a legal framework is quite the leap.

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mitxela 8 hours ago | parent [-]

The USA, for example, has one based on money and connections.

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Danox 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But India has a problem. India is one-third size of the United States or China, and they have 1.4 billion people and growing 2 billion or 2.3 billion is not going to work.

	▲	Scoundreller an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Bangladesh is already at ~3x the population density as India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

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CoastalCoder 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a civil hierarchy, but I doubt that's what GP meant by "caste system".

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jiggawatts 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The USA has historically had a two tier system enshrined in law: one for "whites" and one for "coloreds". (There are two sets of bathrooms in the Whitehouse!) Just because the laws were technically repealed, doesn't mean that the system evaporated overnight.

Coloreds are still hugely overrepresented in the criminal "justice" system, they're still much poorer on average, are still disenfranchised en-masse through gerrymandering and voter ID requirements that accept shooters' club membership cards but not ID cards poorer blacks might possess, etc.

For all intents and purposes, the USA has a caste system that has evolved from an earlier system that was apartheid in all but name.