opinion They've left South Asia, but they can't escape the discrimination and division of its caste system Posted WedWednesday 10 updated TueTuesday 9 MarMarch 2021 at 4:29am It took the re-emergence of a movement fighting for the rights of those in the lowest caste for me to question my own role in the system. ( Share Print text only I replied that I didn't know. But as Jasbeer Mustafa, an academic from Western Sydney University, told me: "If you don't know your caste, it's most likely you're upper caste." As a new migrant to Australia I was surprised when I learnt caste discrimination exists in a country so far removed geographically and culturally from South Asia.