[raven108]

India vedas talk about “varna” - class system based on ability & skills, not caste system. Modern Indian caste system was introduced by British to divide and conquer. Economist with a long history of Hindu phobia and in the vein of colonial British rake it up every now and then. Caste comes from Spanish casta, no equivalent term exists in sanskrit for this.

[nyolfen]

jatis have been endogymous for ~2000 years according to genetic studies. nowhere else on earth has this level of genetic segregation within a single region.

[amriksohata]

jatis yes, but not segregation, classification yes, not hierarchy on steroids until the british came in

[whycombinatore]

Yeah right, every damn thing is because of someone else. Start taking responsibility for your actions.

[amriksohata]

Of course its a societal problem in India, but to root out caste, we have to understand where it came from first and then work together of making people equal. Whilst Christian missionaries from Britain keep coming into India exploiting caste to gain conversions which further creates divisions.

When we understand the reasons, we can address the problem.

[nyolfen]

yeah bro, dalits just really love cleaning waste

[amriksohata]

Of course its a societal problem in India, but to root out caste, we have to understand where it came from first and then work together of making people equal. Whilst Christian missionaries from Britain keep coming into India exploiting caste to gain conversions which further creates divisions.

When we understand the reasons, we can address the problems

[whycombinatore]

Irrelevant where the word comes from. You're indulging in revisionism to make yourself look good. Caste system has been in existence for no less than 2000 years.

[pseudonymousgun]

Not sure where you read these information, but makes no sense.

[whycombinatore]

You don't "read" these type of information. You make them up to look good.

[bsanr2]

I don't know why this is being downvoted; it's a true and salient point. The only nation in which European intercession seems not to have warped native social structure for the worst is Japan, and only because it's hard to get much worse than "allowing for summary execution of lower caste individuals for small slights". In Africa, Asia, and North and South America, it's easy to point out many examples of Western "involvement" leading to horrific human rights abuses based on social class that would not have existed before.