English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van kaste verwys na 'n sosiale klas of sisteem wat gebaseer is op oorerflike status of beroep, veral in Hindoe-samelewings in Indiƫ. Lede van 'n bepaalde kaste het oor die algemeen afsonderlike rolle en pligte binne die samelewing, en sosiale interaksie tussen kaste is dikwels beperk. Die term kan ook wyer gebruik word om te verwys na enige sosiale stratifikasiestelsel gebaseer op geboorte, beroep of ander faktore.

Sentence Examples

  1. There was no stifling caste system to be found segregating people into the warrior caste, the merchant caste, the clergy, or the noble-born.
  2. No Brahman, who would not be regarded as Brahmans and lived with them, no ascetic who would not find his refuge in the caste of the Samanas, and even the most forlorn hermit in the forest was not just one and alone, he was also surrounded by a place he belonged to, he also belonged to a caste, in which he was at home.
  3. One was born into a caste, and one died in the same caste.
  4. Then, Siddhartha had spent the night in his house with dancing girls and wine, had acted as if he was superior to them towards the fellow-members of his caste, though this was no longer true, had drunk much wine and gone to bed a long time after midnight, being tired and yet excited, close to weeping and despair, and had for a long time sought to sleep in vain, his heart full of misery which he thought he could not bear any longer, full of a disgust which he felt penetrating his entire body like the lukewarm, repulsive taste of the wine, the just too sweet, dull music, the just too soft smile of the dancing girls, the just too sweet scent of their hair and breasts.