Does America have a caste system?

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Quote:First, caste cannot be transcended.

Didn't even have to get a third of the way through it and it already is shown as a silly article.

There's a lot of people who can't (or don't genuinely want to) get out of their class, but there's also a lot of people who take humble beginnings and make something of themselves. Is it easier to be successful if you're already rich, or have wealthy family? Absolutely. Does that mean you can't become successful otherwise? Absolutely not.

The biggest thing that I take from this article is that there's a guy going around telling minorities that they don't even need to try to make their lives better because it's not on them, it's because they're stuck in a caste system. That's a self fulfilling prophesy right there. Tell enough people to not bother trying to live a better life because it's impossible, and so they don't, then you point at them later and say "See! They can't get a better quality of life! I was right!"