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As an Indian, this, unfortunately, is not true. Within India caste is very ingrained with the culture and in some aspects it is very difficult to separate culture from caste.

Would you say it is more or less important than gender?

Why are skin lightening products sales increasing every year? It's expected to double in the next 10 years. https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/11/health/skin-ligh...

I thought caste was unrelated to skin color. Is this not true?

It depends, some "higher" caste people have light skin compared to others.

These documented cases even in the US would like to disagree: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_discrimination_in_the_...