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.
