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Перевод: caste

[существительное]
каста ; привилегированный класс

Тезаурус:

1. If I belonged anywhere, it was with these people, the lumpenbourgeoisie , in whose eyes I'd lost caste, fatally and irrevocably.
2. Against such a background he perceives, in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young, that the eleven-plus is "likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old".
3. Each caste is made of a group of family lineages who are endogamous within the caste but must marry outside the paternal lineage.
4. Over the centuries all the world's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures, as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe,; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything,; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation,; of building an hierarchy, sometimes with well-paid officers,; of introducing rituals, rules and forms of worship, and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort .
5. Termites, ants, bees and wasps display various forms of this caste system, all of which show a level of social differentiation that cannot be found among any vertebrate species other than man himself.
6. While a changed social structure was a pre-requisite to technological change, technological advances, once they began, further affected the caste structure of the village.
7. Loyalty was the supreme virtue - to family, to the extended clan of the courtier caste, to the Royal Family and to the British ideal which they embodied.
8. Among the "lower caste" people, the woman's role had always been rather different from her role in the farming castes; now "lower caste" women worked increasingly in the fields alongside the men and this led, according to Mamdani, to "a radical change in the attitude towards girl children low caste families do not look upon the birth of a girl with the disfavour they used to" - though "to a certain extent the disfavour persists because the girl will marry and emigrate precisely when she has reached the age of greatest productivity".
9. Finally many people of this caste had to find other non-traditional occupations.
10. Now, with technological changes, a number of traditional jobs, particularly those of low caste people, became obsolete.
11. He was what we have learned to call a WASP, and his lifetime coincided with the process, not yet quite completed, by which that caste - white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast - was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic.
12. In Britain, caste is not really relevant in the same way, it usually gives rise only to petty jealousy (except where intermarriage is concerned).
13. If some (such as F.R. Scott, A.M. Klein or P.K. Page) represent the priestly caste, Layton represents the prophetic - in language and manner, in word and symbol.