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Untouchable
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Untouchability is a social system in which richer people draw a boundary and restrict people living outside the boundary from accessing the common wealth. A member of the excluded group is known as an untouchable. Untouchability has been made illegal in India.
Prominent examples of this practice include the ostracization poorer people by the stringent visa regimes used by rich countries, seggregation of the Dalits and "Arzal" castes in India and Bangladesh, the segregation and discrimination of the al-Akdham in Yemen, and the Japanese Burakumin undercastes.
- Dalit, in India and Nepal, a person outside and below the other castes
- Burakumin, hisabetsu buraku, a Japanese social minority group
- Khadem, an ethnic minority group in Yemen outside and below the three Arab tribes
- Baekjeong, a Korean outcaste
- Caste
- Outcast
- Homo sacer
- Untouchables (band), a 1980s California soul/mod band
- Untouchables (D.C. band), a 1980s D.C. hardcore punk band
- Untouchables (album), by Korn
- The Untouchable (1997), an album by hip hop artist Scarface
- Untouchable (song), from the album beautifulgarbage by Garbage
- Untouchable (2Pac song), a song from the album Pac's Life, by Tupac Shakur
- Untouchable (Melissa Jiménez song), a song by Melissa Jiménez
- Untouchable (1935 novel), by Mulk Raj Anand
- The Untouchable (novel) (1997), a roman à clef by John Banville
- Untouchable Entertainment Group
- Untouchables (comics), a fictional organization in the DC Universe
- Mathematics: Untouchable number, an integer that can not be expressed as the sum of all the proper divisors of any other integer
- Untouchable , a human who has no presence in the warp in the Warhammer 40,000 universe
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