Maruti,
Thanks for bringing some new controversy and energy into the forum.
I understood you perfectly well. I think you are simply not aware of how things work in the rest of the world. Indians on the racism scale would rank pretty darn low.
The highest amount of skin color specific discrimination is higher in East Asia (The Chinese even have a saying that fair skin equals three blemishes), Middle East (Very skin color conscious people), and Eastern Europe/Russia (Where people call even slightly darker skinned Caucasian people as Black, and where foreign students from Africa/India/Asia are regularly subject to racist attacks).
BTW, Jati (Caste) is not your skin color or your race, but is your clan or tribal identity. It is no different than a German being proud of their catholic saxon identity or someone in Spain identifying themself with their basque identity. The population of Indian Jati's range from 1 million to 30 million, about the size of many provinces/ countries in Europe and elsewhere. It's important to keep size and scale in perspective. BTW, Roma or Gypsies are the untouchables of Europe. We as Hindus need to publicize their mistreatment by the Euro's.
Just because some 19th century Euro thug called it caste, doesn't make it a weird unique thing that old racist Euro propaganda will have you believe.
<!--QuoteBegin-maruti+Oct 3 2006, 09:05 PM-->QUOTE(maruti @ Oct 3 2006, 09:05 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Bodhi,
Thanks for the warm welcome.
AgniVayu,
Perhaps, you misunderstood me. There are obviously different races, ethnicities etc. etc. all over the world. But only in India, you find people advertising their castes in newspapers! Don't you at all find that weird? That was my point, that Indians have degraded and that's why Varnashrama Dharma has been maligned by ignorant people. It's because Indians give them a chance by NOT practicing it properly. If Indians complain of racism, how can anyone take them seriously when they're practicing it themselves under the pretext of caste? The only solution is to follow Varnashrama Dharma as taught by Bhagavan Krishna.
And India can NEVER become a truly developed nation without following VD.
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Thanks for bringing some new controversy and energy into the forum.
I understood you perfectly well. I think you are simply not aware of how things work in the rest of the world. Indians on the racism scale would rank pretty darn low.
The highest amount of skin color specific discrimination is higher in East Asia (The Chinese even have a saying that fair skin equals three blemishes), Middle East (Very skin color conscious people), and Eastern Europe/Russia (Where people call even slightly darker skinned Caucasian people as Black, and where foreign students from Africa/India/Asia are regularly subject to racist attacks).
BTW, Jati (Caste) is not your skin color or your race, but is your clan or tribal identity. It is no different than a German being proud of their catholic saxon identity or someone in Spain identifying themself with their basque identity. The population of Indian Jati's range from 1 million to 30 million, about the size of many provinces/ countries in Europe and elsewhere. It's important to keep size and scale in perspective. BTW, Roma or Gypsies are the untouchables of Europe. We as Hindus need to publicize their mistreatment by the Euro's.
Just because some 19th century Euro thug called it caste, doesn't make it a weird unique thing that old racist Euro propaganda will have you believe.
<!--QuoteBegin-maruti+Oct 3 2006, 09:05 PM-->QUOTE(maruti @ Oct 3 2006, 09:05 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Bodhi,
Thanks for the warm welcome.
AgniVayu,
Perhaps, you misunderstood me. There are obviously different races, ethnicities etc. etc. all over the world. But only in India, you find people advertising their castes in newspapers! Don't you at all find that weird? That was my point, that Indians have degraded and that's why Varnashrama Dharma has been maligned by ignorant people. It's because Indians give them a chance by NOT practicing it properly. If Indians complain of racism, how can anyone take them seriously when they're practicing it themselves under the pretext of caste? The only solution is to follow Varnashrama Dharma as taught by Bhagavan Krishna.
And India can NEVER become a truly developed nation without following VD.
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