A caste system is a class structure that is determined by birth. Loosely, it means that in some societies, if your parents are poor, you're going to be poor, too. ... America prides itself on not having a caste system, because people can “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” and janitors can go to Harvard.
A caste system is a class structure that is determined by birth. Loosely, it means that in some societies, if your parents are poor, you're going to be poor, too. ... America prides itself on not having a caste system, because people can “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” and janitors can go to Harvard.
An external conflict is a struggle that pits a character against an outside force, such as another character, or even nature. You can figure this out because external means that the source is outside the affected subject. So in this case the conflict is cause by a source outside the character.