Interesting question. In other words, is the Indian caste system effectively simple racism that follows a person regardless of whether they were raised in that

Interesting question. In other words, is the Indian caste system effectively simple racism that follows a person regardless of whether they were raised in that culture, or is there a more subtle cultural undertone. An analogy might be black Brits getting discriminated by Jim Crow laws in the old American South. That was simple racism based on skin color and it didn't matter if you were American or not.