Caste System In The Caste System

Castes are created to separate people. People in positions of power such as the government create groups that people then identify themselves with closely and follow specific values, cultures, and beliefs of that specified group. Caste systems are maintained through superior positions in which they exercise laws to rationalize people’s status. People find comfort with relating themselves into one group versus another. For example, there are different religions and individuals find comfort in religion and the specific beliefs that each one might have and the higher entity they believe in. I found the topic of castes most enlightening because it can serve as reasoning for separation in so many different locations around the world. It is pretty …show more content…
In Northern Ireland they are segregated heavily in education, employment, housing, and marriages. In relation to the U.S., Northern Ireland has segregation similar to what the U.S. had up until the early 1960s. However, Northern Ireland separates their people by religion where the U.S. does it by race. In this case Protestants are the majority and Catholics are the minority. In the U.S. we are not even allowed to discuss religion in grade school nor express our own views on what religion we believe in so it’s quite astonishing how a whole portion of a country is segregated solely by religion, a belief. However, in Northern Ireland children by the age of five have a clear view of what they must believe in and are taught this belief for the rest of the life and segregated based upon it. This is similar to how the U.S. used to make whites and blacks attend different schools, restaurants, and other facilities. In Northern Ireland they are born into a religion and have no choice to go another way. Catholics are heavily discriminated against in Northern Ireland whereas the black race is in the United States. Protestants in Northern Ireland are similar to the Ku Klux Klan in the U.S. as they have major marches and express their dominance heavily over the Catholics. They even have physical walls that separate Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods. Northern Ireland’s stratification is one of the most severely segregated that I’ve seen yet. Northern Ireland has created an anti-catholic discrimination law, which has helped but hasn’t nearly resolved their issue of segregation. However, they still have human rights issues just as much as America does. In America, people just want fair rights to each other whereas in Northern Ireland they want to actually overthrow each other’s