It is important to increase respect for how a foreign people feels about and uses the world we are all born into. Throughout anthropology people lessen one another to feel important. American Indians showed contempt for the enemy. Insults are given in New Guinea between villages. I want my students to see that ordinary contempt, including theirs, is what has hurt humanity for centuries and is hurting America now.
Every person knows something about the caste system.
Students in a class I taught pointed out that it is a system of superiority and inferiority in which contempt for people is organized. It also has to do with color. A person is born into a caste which, for most people of India, determines his general occupation and income level. He can never rise out of it, but can fall from it. This situation affects students here just as much as in India.