In India people get placed into rigid hereditary social distinctions.  And no amount of education or hard work could get a person out of their designated caste. A person born high caste enjoys all societal privileges without having to prove herself worthy of said caste, and a person born low caste gets sentenced to a lifetime of cleaning urine and feces no matter how much she tries to prove herself worthy of a better life.  This may seem too ridiculous to believe. But we’d be surprised what people believe just because their relatives say it’s true.                 In my opinion, all social…