01-05-2008, 10:13 PM
OAK FOREST, Ill. A blaze that killed a couple and their
3-year-old son in their suburban Chicago apartment may have had its
point of origin on the other side of the world, in India's ancient
Hindu caste system.
- AP
In case you dont know, it isnt as ancient as the article is making out to be, regardless that is a different matter of talk altogether.
Caste system as it exists today in its rigidity is not more than two centuries old. Castes were loose groupings -- much like tribes -- and even today sociologists dispute if castes are hierarchical or they were made hierarchical by the Britishers and the Indians changed their behaviour to suit this interpretation of White masters.
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Goras have a habit of over- blowing flaws in other civilisations so that Western civilisation comes out looking good every time. </b>This is a game two can play. For example, when covering any murder in America, an Indian correspondent can write:
"The age-old and deep rooted hatred of the White race for Black and coloured people was manifested today again when a Black American was stabbed by a White Caucasian in front of a store over a parking dispute. Sociologists say that though segregation was abolished by law in the sixties, many Whites have been unable to reconcile to the forced equality between them and the Blacks.
For all the visible material prosperity of America, it is a society wracked by deep social divisions. Racial tensions simmer just beneath the surface and it seems the racial divide can never be bridged. Many White religious leaders claim privately that Blacks are not true Christians but are actually heathens, and the Bible does not allow non-believers equality in Christian socieities. The abolition of segregation, they claim, was an assault on the supremacy of White civilisation and true Christians. The landscape of America is still littered with Black-only or White-only churches.
There is a strong constituency in America which feeds movement like the KKK and looks back to the glory days of Black enslavement when "the niggers knew their place." The hollowness of claims of enlightened American values can be seen from the fact that this country has in the last two centuries been unable to elect a Black president.
Some commentators see the unwritten seggregation and racialism against Blacks still being pracrtised in America as deriving from the fundamental division of believers and non-believers in Christianity.
A social scientist says: "Racialism and hate crimes in America cannot be eradicated till the bedrock of Christianity on which the White civilisation stands is not reformed and hate-filled references to non-believers are not edited out of the Bible itself."
3-year-old son in their suburban Chicago apartment may have had its
point of origin on the other side of the world, in India's ancient
Hindu caste system.
- AP
In case you dont know, it isnt as ancient as the article is making out to be, regardless that is a different matter of talk altogether.
Caste system as it exists today in its rigidity is not more than two centuries old. Castes were loose groupings -- much like tribes -- and even today sociologists dispute if castes are hierarchical or they were made hierarchical by the Britishers and the Indians changed their behaviour to suit this interpretation of White masters.
<b>
Goras have a habit of over- blowing flaws in other civilisations so that Western civilisation comes out looking good every time. </b>This is a game two can play. For example, when covering any murder in America, an Indian correspondent can write:
"The age-old and deep rooted hatred of the White race for Black and coloured people was manifested today again when a Black American was stabbed by a White Caucasian in front of a store over a parking dispute. Sociologists say that though segregation was abolished by law in the sixties, many Whites have been unable to reconcile to the forced equality between them and the Blacks.
For all the visible material prosperity of America, it is a society wracked by deep social divisions. Racial tensions simmer just beneath the surface and it seems the racial divide can never be bridged. Many White religious leaders claim privately that Blacks are not true Christians but are actually heathens, and the Bible does not allow non-believers equality in Christian socieities. The abolition of segregation, they claim, was an assault on the supremacy of White civilisation and true Christians. The landscape of America is still littered with Black-only or White-only churches.
There is a strong constituency in America which feeds movement like the KKK and looks back to the glory days of Black enslavement when "the niggers knew their place." The hollowness of claims of enlightened American values can be seen from the fact that this country has in the last two centuries been unable to elect a Black president.
Some commentators see the unwritten seggregation and racialism against Blacks still being pracrtised in America as deriving from the fundamental division of believers and non-believers in Christianity.
A social scientist says: "Racialism and hate crimes in America cannot be eradicated till the bedrock of Christianity on which the White civilisation stands is not reformed and hate-filled references to non-believers are not edited out of the Bible itself."