Is the United States a highly stratified country? The answer to this question can be found in this first web site. The Department of Health and Human Service's web site contains data on the poverty threshold in the continental United States for a family of four. It also includes a multitude of data on income and poverty in the U.S.
Here you can access an alphabetical listing of America's 400 richest people. You can then compare their incomes with those in the DHH poverty threshold list to assess the difference in income between the highest and lowest classes in the United States.
This site presents an interesting description of India's caste system. It provides a detailed description of the four major castes and allows you to link to a presentation of the surname/caste relationship.
Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms...
