2014年11月3日星期一

Thoughts and Reflections on Caste

Agnes Yu
World History Period 7
11/3/14
Thoughts and Reflections on: Caste

Source of the article: Arrow of the Blue Skinned God

Big questions: How the caste system both unify and divide India? What is the Caste System? How

                        did it get to India? What purpose does it serve? Why does it still exist?

   Caste unifies India in some way, Indians people believe that if they try their best to do everything

that they need to do in the country, the behaviors are proper,  also, they always being a good citizen,

in their next life they will have a better class . This unifies them to have the same determination to

have nice next life. But what divides them is the level,  too,the lowest class people and the highest

ones are both untouchable, they would never have any contact with each other. And there's caste

discrimination which makes people feel not equal.

  The caste system is something that is like hierarchy, everyone in India borns with a class level, and

it will stay with the people for the rest of their lives and even though you are in the lowest class you

couldn't complain. One reason for caste to come into India because of the religion, people believed in

gods. Caste is for dividing people in different class level and require them to do the things that they

meant to do. And they banned the marriages from outside the caste. Caste is still exist today, because

it's still for marriages and some of the Indians people nowadays are still find brides which have

proper caste. Even though is more free now, indians still believe in if you do the best now and you

will have a better life when you reborn.

 

 

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