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The caste system in India is an ancient and rigid class system that dates back to the days of the Aryan people and the belief in Gods that needed appeasing. It started when those people who worked with the dead or with faeces were banned from attending ceremonies for hygiene reasons, and spread into what it is today. There are for main castes, the teachers (Brahmans, normally priests and such), ....., farmers and ...... If you are born into a caste, you marry someone from that caste, and you are restricted (not by law any longer, but certainly in practice) in the work you can do. This may have a had a place in maintaining the peace in a country of many invasions of different peoples and races, but nowadays is redundant, and is a hateful and cruel system that almost amounts to enslavement of those at its bottom.
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Comments (3)
2008-08-31 09:27:51
from dingclancy
I am interested in India's caste system. But from what I heard, it is not as obvious if you are a traveler. One thing that we should remember though is that the caste system has a long history of being an accepted system. So, I think it is not accurate to say that you should cry if you are in the lowest rung. For them, it is a duty, and they should accept it with dignity, which they are happy to do.
if you are born from the "government"/king caste then you can be happy, but if you are born into the lowest caste, you can cry for the whole of your life. India caste system sux, they should change it!
Thanks for the tip Martin. I've never been to India but had heard this caste system was still being applied.
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