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to community; for example, the merchant class in Europe would outrank the peasantry, while merchants were explicitly inferior to peasants during the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan. Other prominent forms of classism include India's caste system, where caste and class often intersected and caused discrimination against certain peoples. Discrimination against the poor in Western cultures spans back to early America, with many of the people who were sent to the Colonies being poor. Those who were sent over

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