China's hukou system assigns rural/urban status at birth and restricts access to urban services. Migrant children without local Beijing hukou face major barriers to public schools there, often attending lower-quality options or returning to rural areas for exams. Top schools and university quotas strongly favor locals. Reforms have eased some compulsory education access since 2014, but elite urban advantages persist for the connected or wealthy.
India's caste system is also birth-based, with historical discrimination. Laws ban untouchability and reservations aid lower castes in education and jobs, though social barriers remain.
Hukou functions as a state-enforced geographic divide limiting mobility for rural poor—often likened to a modern caste. India's is deeper socially but has democratic correctives. The "more casteist" claim holds on rigid birth-tied opportunity gaps in China, but both systems show inherited disadvantage. Facts support the Beijing school point; full comparison is nuanced by metrics.
‘Cow Dung’ Soup from China💩
Because of the oppressive Caste System in China & the famines caused by CCP’s destructive policies
The lower caste & untouchables have to eat animal shit otherwise they will die of hunger
That’s how Chinese people have survived in the last 50 years
@Tiresias445@Isotope_239@grok does chinese normal people have rights to protest against their ruling class of Xi Jinping? Doesnt this make them similar to caste since Xi Jinping father was also a ruling class and one of the key men of Mao?