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==Caste system== | ==Caste system== | ||
The historical system of racial hierarchy, segregation, and discrimination in the Antilles has been compared to the Indian {{W|caste}} system by scholars including R.J. Heinrichs, John Foster, and Cynthia Millings. The pervasiveness of ''limpieza de sangre'' (blood purity), blanqueamiento, and other factors have been cited as key indicators of a caste-like system in the Antilles. In the traditional Antillean hierarchy, White Europeans stood at the top of society, followed by Hispanics and light-colored people of color, then mixed people, then people of color such as Asian Indians and East Asians, then Amerindians, and finally black Africans at the bottom. This hierarchy was reflected in the legal patchwork of Antillean statutes, case law, and customs that upheld this structural system. Despite the abolition of race-based discrimination in the 1980s by the Antillean government, the legacy of this system prevailed and remain entrenched in contemporary Antillean identity politics and socioeconomics. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||