Research has found that they included mestizos, Indians, and poor whites ( espa�oles ) . " L�peros " were viewed as unrespectable people ( " el pueblo bajo " ) by polite society ( " la gente culta " ), who judged them as being morally and biologically inferior.
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The meaninglessness of war, the horror witnessed on the fields of battle, the beastliness of domestic squabbles in the name of religion and caste, the degradation hidden beneath the cloak of'respectability', the dignity in the lives of people condemned as engaged in'unrespectable'professions, questions on fidelity and prostitution, the irrationality of'belonging'to a religion one happens to be born into all find space in this work of art.
