> Casteism, while bad, is not racism. This relies on a fairly narrow view of what constitutes "race" or "racism". The caste of a person is fundamentally based

> Casteism, while bad, is not racism. This relies on a fairly narrow view of what constitutes "race" or "racism". The caste of a person is fundamentally based on their ancestry. Thus, discriminating based on caste is discriminating based on a person's ancestry. I think a lot of reasonable people would consider that to fall under the definition of "racism". Yes, it's true that there is a lot of diversity of ethnic groups and e.g. skin color within castes in different regions of India. But just because people discriminate on certain aspects of race (ancestry) and not others (skin color) doesn't make it not racism.