boddi satva wrote:
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>There are many markers of social caste that are completely invisible
>and meaningless to an outsider and ephemeral. Let's say you adopted a
>baby who had been orphaned in one of the Hindu areas that were
>destroyed by the recent earthquake. If the baby's local community had
>disappeared, his caste would also have disappeared. However, the
>child's gender would still be clear.
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Reminds me of a joke about an English boy who is shown a picture of a
naked man and a naked woman and asked who is the boy and who, the girl.
"How can I possibly tell?" he replies, "They haven't got their clothes on."
Joanna
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