[lbo-talk] Caste system question for uvj at vsnl.com

boddhisatva boddhisatva at netzero.net
Fri Sep 12 13:09:40 PDT 2003


My basic question about caste is out of ignorance. Simply put: How can anybody tell what caste you belong to if you don't tell him yourself? Upon meeting one another in a restaurant or club or something, do cosmopolitan Indians actually ask one another what caste they belong to? Don't people object to this? What if you say "I don't discuss caste." or something? What happens?

I guess I don't understand how caste works.

peace,

boddi



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