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Assume you have been directed to end India's caste system? What would you do? What kind of opposition would you face? How does this resemble the U.S. struggle over civil rights?

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Questions: Assume you have been directed to end India's caste system? What would you do? What kind of opposition would you face? How does this resemble the U.S. struggle over civil rights?

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This is nearly an impossible feat, if the past several decades are any indication. To make the connection with the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, there are some similarities in that societal position was determined by a consistently applied norm designating specific people as inferior. In the U.S., this group was Black Americans. The group was considered inferior in all areas from living conditions to ...

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