In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the infrastructure of the United States as a caste system akin to the Indian caste system and the one employed by Nazi Germany. It is an eye-opening story about people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of life in today’s America. I personally have never thought about racism as a form of the caste system. Wilkerson also uses news events, cultural references like the Matrix movie, and anecdotal stories to explain her theory.

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It was a compelling and eye-opening reading experience knitted with Wilkerson's anecdotes, insights, and interpretation. Caste is not hatred towards individuals, but a system built from traditions and societal roots way back in ancient times to keep a collective of people in place. Caste is not just about colors. It goes far beyond that. It is a system to captive, sacrifice, and uphold a belief of humankind's superiority, which, in truth, humanity should be equal regardless of origins.

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, is worth reading. This book is thought-provoking and delves into how the system of oppression was founded and works. These same oppressions are still ongoing today. Society is not only rooted in racism but in classism and applied human hierarchy.

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The parallels between U.S. policies and the treatment of "lower" people are reflected in ugly clarity across some of the most inhumane events in human history.

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