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Many Americans would be appalled to think that caste might exist in the supposedly meritocratic U.S. But is the country’s persistent, entrenched inequality really so different? Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Does America have a caste system?

Subramanian Shankar, University of Hawaii

An Indian scholar makes the case that caste explains inequality in America better than race and class.

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