This is not true of traditional American families. In many traditional American families you will have some people that are widely successful and many others th

This is not true of traditional American families. In many traditional American families you will have some people that are widely successful and many others that are not. Yes, there are the elites, they are a different class for sure, but the middle and lower classes of American society are not tiered in the way a caste system is. In a caste system, your family is your destiny. Confusing the two is dangerous because it normalizes the caste system, a system that is very economically damaging to a country.