Whether it’s Japan, India, or the Arab world, it seems like the idea that they have a group of people considered some form of “untouchable”; beneath the concern of most people due from birth but still a rung above social death, is common.
I’m aware of people across European history being either “socially dead”, or being looked down on for their occupation I.e. millers, tanners, gong farmers but this seems like a different phenomenon
Is this an orientalist trope describing a more complex situation or is it broadly accurate in some cases?
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