In early south asian society the caste system functioned primarily as a tool of discrimination. do you agree? disagree? or both? in your answer be sure to support your opinion using at least two examples.

Yes, technically talking it had a discriminative ¨behavior¨, the fact to be treated and respected depending on the family or region where you born, is a clear example of how the discrimination can be.

In modern times is a common known that we are all the same as citizens, we all have the same rights and duties, and that cannot be changed or modified by anybody, before that thought wasn´t so clear, be or not be considered as somebody important in the society depended on 100% of the person precedence, so even if a person coming from a low-class caste, would be extremely qualified for some position, had an astonishing idea, or basically tried to highlight between crowd, it won´t be possible, be successful depended totally in a social family system really popular in the era.

-The apartheid in South Africa or even in the US, it consisted in the systematical segregation between races, normally giving more privileges to a race over another one.

- The Spanish empire in the colonization era, they had a family social system, being at the top of the social pyramid the European Spanish, then Spanish born in America, and after them the ¨mestizos¨ (mixed), natives, etc.