The thought issues about caste is also ingrained within religion, cultural practise and tradition that we are looking at a whole chunk of de-construction here. I think caste issue is a lot more easier to resolve and get rid off than the race issue. Religiously, most of us are Hindus. Cultural practices are, for the most part, the same. People won't tryt to change teh scoial hierarchy by themselves. If I remember what I learned in my anthro classes correctly.. (hehehe jhandai anthro major bhako ma, once upon a time), all our rituals area way to enforce and re-enforce teh class hierarchy in teh society that gets violated during our day-to-day activities. So to make up for all that violations, we invent traditions and rituals.. (yestai ajsto lagcha..). So tradition is a man-made thing, it can be chnaged. Of course, there will be both short term and long trem resistances from the people, but it's doable and only the necessary evil with a monopoly on violence, can do it, because people fear the state. Tradition, culture have been changed in many places. Our Nepali culture has changed a lot too in the last 50 eayrs. Cultures/traditions change beacuse of 2 reasons: 1. the society adapts new ways/thinking itslef 2. the society is forced to adapt new ways/thinking In both cases, there will be some "resistance" (active ressitacne and passive). Active ressitance will be an outright refusal to adapt the new thinking especially if its forced. The pasive resitance is more reflected in new rituals that develop overtime. People will find ways to recreate their tradition through rituals. Caste hierarchy will be recreated in those short-duration rituals and no one can stop it. Its how cultures work. After the rituals, people again go back to their work/contemporary reality/surroundings and wait for another month/year for the ritual to again unconsiously recreate te trditional hieracrhy. Mero bichar.. ma