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Racial vs Caste - What's the difference?

racial | caste |

As an adjective racial

is of or relating to a race or a people.

As a noun caste is

any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of south asian societies.

racial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a race or a people
    • the racial complexion

    Related terms

    * interracial * multiracial * race * racial profiling * racialist * racisty

    Anagrams

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    caste

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
  • A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
  • * Macaulay
    • The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste .

    Hyponyms

    * (hereditary class of India) Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna

    Anagrams

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