> Anyone who finds a comment analogising race in America to caste in India insightful knows nothing about caste. I will respectfully disagree strongly. I have

> Anyone who finds a comment analogising race in America to caste in India insightful knows nothing about caste. I will respectfully disagree strongly. I have read the wikipedia links you provided to back your prior claim that 'caste' is not analogous to 'race'. My readings so far, even based on the very links you provided, shows that it appears to be very much race and skin color related. Literally, the word you mentioned, "Varna" means skin color! "Varna contextually means "colour, race, tribe, species, kind, sort, nature, character, quality, property" of an object or people in some Vedic and medieval texts.[4] Varna refers to four social classes in the Manusmriti.[4][5]"