Less human?

Wonder if anyone found that TV documentary about the Dalit people of India really upsetting? I'm finding that images from it won't leave me alone.
The Hindu caste system rates people born into the Dalit, or Untouchable, caste as the lowest form of humanity. So the 'higher' forms of humanity allow them to live in such poverty that some are reduced to catching and eating rats; they hate having to eat vermin but they have no money for food and so no choice. Other Dalits are forced to take work cleaning out latrines, and many die from the fumes. Dalit children in school often don't get help from the teacher, aren't allowed to use the school toilets, and get given inferior food. Crimes against Dalits don't seem to elicit the same response from the authorities as crimes against 'higher' caste people.
Which kind of raises the question, doesn't it - who is 'higher' in the sight of God? The ones with the higher standing in the religious/political system - who treat their fellow human beings with a lack of compassion that's truly disgusting? Or the rat-eaters and latrine-scrapers who somehow manage to raise their families, persevere with their sickening work, help their neighbours and live out their lives, against all the odds?
Easy to see, perhaps, why God sent his own son to live a human life on earth, not with the high-ranking Pharisee class ruling the religious and political scene in Galilee in the year AD Zero, but with the poorest of the poor. It was only the despised and rejected ones understood Jesus Christ and the way he chose to live and serve.
Has that changed much? I'm not sure that the people in society now who have or are trying to 'have it all' can ever make much sense of Jesus Christ...... whereas the people whose lives are on the edge don't seem to have a problem with him at all. Once they hear about him, there's instant recognition, bonding, gratitude - clarity regarding what he was about, insight into his motives, identification with his purpose for life, understanding of the impact of him as a person, even millenia later.
Seems he's still here for the ratcatchers, while the 'fat rats' still rate him beneath them.
Would anyone out there like to comment on this?