When Worlds Collide | The Caste System Fails | PBS

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, premiering on Monday, September 27, 2010, at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on PBS, with host host Rubén Martínez, illuminates the origins of today's Latino culture in the United States through the untold story of what happened in the Americas after Columbus. In this preview clip, Martínez describes how the Spanish caste system of the "Old World" was doomed to failure in the "New World" of Latin America.
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[stlkngyomom]

In the end love/lust conquers all!

[voyeurdug]

... (also, besides and apart from) failure of "caste" system, demonstrated the fallacy of the concept of race among humankind.

[solariis187]

@98bigbutt Speak for yourself puta.

[98bigbutt]

@solariis187,Well my ancestors also includes your countrymen as well. Look no one is innocent. Every person has an ancestor who's a rapist. That's a fact.

[solariis187]

@98bigbutt My point is my ancestors (the Spaniards) conquered your ancestors, just like the Gaels (also my ancestors) conquered the Druids for their barbarism you stupid fuckin piecee of shit. So next time you call a Spaniard a rapist and a robber you will be doing it in hell with your God damned family... cholo puto, hijo de mierda.

[98bigbutt]

@solariis888,The Druids in England had done some sacrificial ritual as well. So what's your point.

[98bigbutt]

@solariis888,I know about the Caste System in India or China. It's YOU who don't what the Caste System really is. The Caste System means that when the Government divides them based on race,ethnicity,or religious orientation. That's what he meant STUPID!!!!!!!

[solariis888]

@98bigbutt Your ancestors killed virgins and where slaughtered fool.

[solariis888]

@98bigbutt Your full of shit... as is your lies. You have no idea of history, just as pbs has no idea and spreads lies. There was no caste system in Spain, the fools are thinking of India and China.

[98bigbutt]

The mistake of what the Spaniards did was they came as conquerors,robbers of gold,and rapists instead of bringing women and children along like what the British did in their colonies up north.

[gearofduty2012]

white black people look like indians to me

[BlackTruthForever]

@9tee

Gee, while we're rejecting things does that include rejecting white privilege as well?

Intelligent/wise people also realize that is alive as well.