ARTICLE: India's Lower Castes Seek Social Progress In Global Job Market, By Emily Wax, Washington Post, August 20, 2007; Page A01

The crux of how globalization forces India to evolve from the crushing inefficiencies and injustices of its thousands-of-years-old caste system. This is the great hindrance to progress in India: they have had a democracy for a long time but lack a meritocracy because so much of their population is subtly and non-subtly denied economic freedom.

Globalization forces change by demonstrating what broadband economic connectivity really means: the end of identity according to what your daddy's job once was--even if that's codified by some ancient caste.