Caste System - My first awareness of it - Page 8

Originally posted by: nirvanlove

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some more info to horrify u, the ques was also presumed cause perhaps the guy was DARK and looked like someone from that caste.

Originally posted by: -avni.137-

i would like to add something...today there are many students from general category (including me) in India who are angry with our system...
because, a general category student with 70-75% finds it difficult to get admission while an SC, ST or OBC with 50-55% marks gets admission easily on the basis of Reservation
All i wanna say is if we talk about EQUALITY, it should mean EQUALITY in all terms...isn't it unfair that just bcoz a person belongs to SC ST or OBC category, even though he/she has less marks, he/she is given more preference over a meritorious student of General category?? 😡

P.S. - my bro got 99.75 percentile in CAT exam...still it was difficult for him to get admission in IIM Ahmedabad...thanks to the unnecessary reservation system 🤢

well i can understand you view point but you dont know the reaon for reservation...the sc st and obc are the most opressed caste in India since time immemrial...reservation sysytem will exist only till the time when the opressed casts are capable enough and are in a equal footing with the other cates...reservation is for the upliftment of these cates ...once they come at par with the other Indians it will be abolished...howver this system also ahs some hoopholes like the chidren of sc st and obc who are capable enough and have all the resources like money education etc take advantage of it which is not fair to the general category ppl who have strived hard to achieve something.bt nothing can be done i guess

I am in the UK & till now I havent faced anything about caste.. We dnt believe in these caste etc..

In Southern India, especially AP, caste plays a role in every aspect of life. Film stars are adored based on caste, politicians are voted based on caste, marriages outside caste even with castes that are concerned equal are a strict no-no. Even educated people behave in this way. In the past 60 years only people of 2 castes have been chiefministers except for 1 peson i guess. Thats how life is.

Originally posted by: amo_amo_aigoo

In Southern India, especially AP, caste plays a role in every aspect of life. Film stars are adored based on caste, politicians are voted based on caste, marriages outside caste even with castes that are concerned equal are a strict no-no. Even educated people behave in this way. In the past 60 years only people of 2 castes have been chiefministers except for 1 peson i guess. Thats how life is.

its the case everywhere in India.

Originally posted by: amo_amo_aigoo

In Southern India, especially AP, caste plays a role in every aspect of life. Film stars are adored based on caste, politicians are voted based on caste, marriages outside caste even with castes that are concerned equal are a strict no-no. Even educated people behave in this way. In the past 60 years only people of 2 castes have been chiefministers except for 1 peson i guess. Thats how life is.

In South Africa we don't have any caste or restrictions

Originally posted by: taahir004

In South Africa we don't have any caste or restrictions

I think the whole caste thing must start fading awaying to welcome

better life styles

That's simply NOT true! My husband is from South Africa-his family migrated 5 generations ago. When I went to meet my in-laws, I found all the Indian I met steeped in caste issues and religious traditions from the last century. Caste system is VERY much intact there.
No restrictions? You must be joking! Because of the group area act-races were SEGREGATED and that resulted in a VERY closed and tradition bound community-where traditions were moribund. I have rarely been more offended at the kind of thinking that prevailed amongst the so called educated elite in Durban-who strove to ape the Whites and proudly declared that they were NOT going to accept being ruled by the Blacks.My Sister in law married a Muslim fellow doctor-BOTH families regarded that THEIR offspring had married DOWN from his/her CASTE & race.Neither family accepted the marriage,nor the couple
The religious practices that I saw and the contempt that I saw openly expressed and accepted AS NORMAL for this or that lower Jaat was astoundingly backward.

So the SA Indians may have acquired the accouterments of a "welcome better life styles" but they had NOT shed the mindset they took from here.

saw the epi just now, when Stalin said that ask a person her caste, if she doesn't know then most probably she belongs to upper caste coz the society makes only the lower caste aware of their 'status'

I so agree with it, coz I don't know my caste and I've never faced any issue till date...

But I was amazed how my fellow Hindu frnds on FB got angry at Aamir n bashed him for insulting Hinduism thru this epi!!! Didn't he simply present us the reality of our society?

I have heard, 'dhol gawar shudra pashu nari, ye sab taran k adhikari'!! it just pisses me off big time 😡
dunno which loser came up with this!