A recent headline in the Boston Globe read: “Caste should not be part of the American Dream.” The article, authored by Professor Gaurav J. Pathania, went on to discuss the impact in the United States of a caste system with origins in India and other South Asian countries, describing it as “a complex, rigid, and hierarchical structure of privilege based on birth.” As the article explains, the caste system negatively impacts United States workplaces and workers in ways that some governments, universities, and companies are trying to eradicate.
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