Untouchability is a form of social institution that legitimises and enforces practices that are discriminatory, humiliating, exclusionary and exploitative against people belonging to certain social groups. Untouchability also refers to the condition of belonging to such groups, members of whom are historically called untouchables, outcastes, or archaically pariahs.
Untouchability is a form of social institution that legitimises and enforces practices that are discriminatory, humiliating, exclusionary and exploitative against people belonging to certain social groups. Untouchability also refers to the condition of belonging to such groups, members of whom are historically called untouchables, outcastes, or archaically pariahs.
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