The Caste System

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how does the caste system work ?

how much different is it than the racism we experience in america ?
 

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how does the caste system work ?

how much different is it than the racism we experience in america ?

Google it. It's not strictly racism, but it's not entirely not racist either. Like race, it is now a complicated issue caught up in local politics, affirmative action, pandering, stoking and instigating, traditional animosity and privilege.
 

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One could Google, but someone here might actually live there and have some personal insight into what goes down. :lupe:
 

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i've seen this and try to understand it but i don't think i can being that i don't even know anyone from india. so that would be like a white person trying to understand racism..
 

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lighter skins are on the top and darker skins are on the bottom. That shyt is racism made into a religion.

This isn't true at all. I'm a Brahmin and am about the same complexion as :ahh:, meanwhile I work with a Hindu dude who looks like Ricky Rubio and is a Vaishya (merchant caste).

Caste is way deeper than skin color, people in India have always been diverse in terms of complexion and you can observe that throughout the religious scriptures and epics on which Hinduism is based. Krishna came from a famous line of Aryans, was born as a Kshatriya, and was black as night. The Buddha was a Kshatriya too, and crackpots like Runoko Rashidi waste no time trying to claim him as black/african without ever trying to address this discrepancy in their logic.

Anyway Caste is based on birth and is tied into the doctrine of Karma/rebirth. It was a way to divide society in a way where all functions of the state could be carried out efficiently and a way to explain ones lot in life. Why is someone born into a rich family and the next person born into poverty? shyt like that. Since Vedic/Hindu culture is the oldest surviving culture from ancient times, it became corrupted at some point people took it to extremes.

Every society has some sort of Caste system. In ancient Egypt the Brahmins could be compared to the scribes, and the people who built the temples/pyramids were the Shudras or laborers.
 

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This isn't true at all. I'm a Brahmin and am about the same complexion as :ahh:, meanwhile I work with a Hindu dude who looks like Ricky Rubio and is a Vaishya (merchant caste).

Caste is way deeper than skin color, people in India have always been diverse in terms of complexion and you can observe that throughout the religious scriptures and epics on which Hinduism is based. Krishna came from a famous line of Aryans, was born as a Kshatriya, and was black as night. The Buddha was a Kshatriya too, and crackpots like Runoko Rashidi waste no time trying to claim him as black/african without ever trying to address this discrepancy in their logic.

Anyway Caste is based on birth and is tied into the doctrine of Karma/rebirth. It was a way to divide society in a way where all functions of the state could be carried out efficiently and a way to explain ones lot in life. Why is someone born into a rich family and the next person born into poverty? shyt like that. Since Vedic/Hindu culture is the oldest surviving culture from ancient times, it became corrupted at some point people took it to extremes.

Every society has some sort of Caste system. In ancient Egypt the Brahmins could be compared to the scribes, and the people who built the temples/pyramids were the Shudras or laborers.
i dont expect the official explanation of what the caste system is to admit racism. we just gotta look at this caste culture as a whole and it'll speak for itself.

racist ppl don't like being called or admitting they are racist..
 
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