LOL!! After all, pariah is an Indian word for untouchables. It has now become an universal word for "outcasts".
But caste prejudice is not just in India, however. Countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan are also rooted in caste system. Most of south Asia, even Buddhist Sri Lanka and Islamic Pakistan, there is a lot of casteist/racial/ethnic prejudice.
Within caste system, the highest priestly caste is seen as coward intellectuals(similar to limpwristed bloodbloods of Europe), while lowest caste are seen as impure non humans who dwell in filth, being born in filth.
What makes the caste system almost impossible to destroy is that the low castes absolutely hate the lowest castes, because, doing so, they are still the bigger fish. Ancient Indian philosopher Kautilya had different castes as different sizes of fish. The biggest fish eats the big fish. The big fish eats the small fish. And the small fish eat the smallest fish.
What makes the caste system almost impossible to destroy is that the low castes absolutely hate the lowest castes, because, doing so, they are still the bigger fish. >>
Not that that might happen anywhere else, like, oh, I dunno.... /sarc