Meaning of 'caste' in Samoan is: e faavasega ai

caste: e faavasega ai

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tusi, e faavasega ai, lanu, lalolagi, fōliga, mālō, tagata, itū'āiga, agalelei, vasega, ilo, fanau mai, vasega lautele, poloaiga.

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Noun(1) social status or position conferred by a system based on class(2) (Hinduism(3) a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth(4) in some social insects (such as ants(5) (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus(6) stratified according to ritual purity(7) social class

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(1) This is a strange kind of caste system and women find it very hard to break.(2) Speakers said the Dalits suffer under the Hindu caste hierarchy and this move restores their self-respect.(3) Because if you are only born a Hindu, then obviously you are born into a caste .(4) He was born into the Brahman caste which meant he was from the highest ranking caste of Hindu priests.(5) a man of high caste(6) caste has survived among Goa's Christians(7) The caste system was obliterated legally, with one stroke of the pen, the day free India was born.(8) the caste system(9) those educated in private schools belong to a privileged caste(10) But there was precious little serious reporting on just what precisely is entailed in our economic caste system of haves and have-nots.(11) He added that the deeply entrenched caste system meant it was almost impossible for people of lower castes to assume any position of power.(12) A republican government does not comfortably coexist with a submerged caste within the population.(13) It was resolved to launch a national campaign for the abolition of both the caste system and dowry because together they tended to reinforce the system of caste endogamy.(14) This caste system consists of three major parts within a colony.(15) In these cities and their suburbs, there is now a developed class system overlying and in many respects displacing the more traditional caste system.(16) Historically, the society was divided along caste and color lines.