1. The National Geograohic article about "India's 'Untouchables' Face Violence, Discrimination" talks about how the Dalits, or the untouchables, are being discriminated against by people that are of higher ranking than they are. The reason they are being discriminated against is because people of the higher caste believe that the Dalits need to be put in their place. This caste system comes from Hinduism, a religion developed and practiced for more than 1,500 years.The caste system is simply a rank or status in which a person is born into. In class, we learned about Hinduism and its development. We learned that Dalits back then were shunned from society. In this article, we see that though laws have been passed, the violence and anger only seemed to rise. 2. If an outsider, such as I, were to
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