The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 14. Africa is an ancient, vast, and diverse civilizational land. Historically, the entire region was not defined by modern national borders. Instead, it…
Category: Anthropology
Arab Societies: Tribal Lineage vs. Najaf’s Clerical Merit (Part 2)
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 13. The Arab world runs on two competing systems of social organization, both sophisticated enough to have outlasted empires: The Paternal Lineage Cartel…
Arab Societies: Tribal Lineage vs. Najaf’s Clerical Merit (Part 1)
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 12. Arabia is a peninsula where emptiness in nature is in abundance. Most of the peninsula is desert, so water and oases decided…
China: The Shang and the Subordination of the Merchants
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 11. In the traditional Chinese hierarchy, the Shang (merchants) occupied the lowest tier. They were the equivalent of India’s Vaiśya or Baniya castes….
China: From Confucian Mandarins to Communist Cadres
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 10. For over two millennia, Chinese civilization was organized around a highly sophisticated social hierarchy. This was known as the Shi-nong-gong-shang (士農工商) system.37…
China: A Stirring Pot of Empires and Civilizations
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 9. China is an ancient civilization. Its original name was Zhōngguó (中国, traditional 中國), which literally means “Middle Country” or “Central Kingdom.” It…
Japan: Feudal Pyramids and the Burakumin Outcasts
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 8 Japan is an ancient and continuous civilization. From a distance, we often presume it to be a democratic society like a Western…
Plight of American Dalit Caste or Suppressed Black Citizens
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 7. Dalit means suppressed. Chapter 6 showed the tale of successful mixed-race Black individuals. They take a trajectory out of their rat hole….
The New American Celebrity Caste
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 6. In Chapter 5, it was demonstrated that American society has a caste structure. Through the racial sieve, this structure filters every citizen.[1]…
USA: Caste Without the Name
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 5. All men are equal. George Washington said it most veraciously. Yet, he owned 124 slaves at his death.[1] He was not a…
The British Aristocracy: A Legacy of Hypocrisy and Landed Cartels
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 4. The British aristocracy is celebrated in popular culture as the guardian of tradition and honor. We see this in romanticized novels and…
The Architecture of Global Caste System
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 3. In Chapter 2, we saw a living, vibrant example of a landlord class legacy in Germany. We also discussed similar contours from…
Living Example of Caste in Europe: Germany
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 2. Who is Ursula von der Leyen? “Von der” is a German noble prefix. It literally means “from the” in English. Does it…
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation.
Caste Without the Name: A Mirror to the West. (Chapter 1) Across human societies, from ancient empires to modern digital democracies, we find remarkably similar systems of social stratification. When we strip…