The first time I understood that my best frined was different was when she told me how easy it was for her to get admission in engineering colleges bcos she was from SC. All her cousins were engineers. Her father was an engineer in a govt job.
My ancestors are farmers. Their education reqd by walking a huge distance to reach their schools every day and by staying at some relatives place dependent on their charity. I was still not in a finanncial position to get admission in an engineering course. Neither financial resources nor a caste.
Charity is what my father and my uncles got. Right is what her father, her uncles and her cousins and her children get.
