To clarify the mistake I made in our discussion about caste in India, I must say that caste in India are 4:
-Brahmins, priests, charged with interpreting and teaching the sacred texts.
-Kshatriyas, warriors and rulers, in charge of defending the society.
-Vaisyas, craftsmen and traders responsible for feeding the society.
-Sudras, peasants and working people, whose job is to serve the other castes.
But we find the Dalits or so-called Untouchables are people considered impure by birth and therefore not worthy of a seat on the legendary caste system. Account for 15 to 25% of the population and are continually discriminated against at all levels, economic, social, cultural and political. The Untouchables perform jobs traditionally seen as dirty and degrading, and very poorly paid, for example, incineration of corpses, cleaning latrines, septic tank cleaning, leather work, jobs that involve physical contact with blood, feces and other debris. Furthermore, by its impurity untouchable people are repudiated, insulted, forced out of public places are forbidden from taking water from the same wells that the upper castes and eat and drink with the same utensils in restaurants. To this is added the exercise of violence. The untouchable people are often victims of rape, lynching or murder by members of higher castes. Although as I mentioned, in 1950, the law made it illegal to caste discrimination. Although in reality the untouchables are still discriminated against.
Classmattes you are saying, could you belong to this caste system? What breeds would have liked to belong? What would have happened if they were born in the group of Untouchables?
For us, the caste system is difficult to understand. I don’t know if I could get used to that system, because I think that the caste is as a basis for segregation and discrimination, like a form of apartheid. I don't like this system!
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