--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regarding caste, Maharishi said at Amherst in 1971 that he opposed > interracial marriage because "the best qualities of both races are lost in > the offspring." Also, he is alleged to have opposed the geographic > intermingling of races, when it was brought to his attention that this was > sometimes a point of tension in the US (e.g., segregation issues). >
*** Caste in India is a rigid system of social classes based on birth. You can see interracial marriages to be problematic for other reasons than because they are frobidden in Indian caste system. When people from different cultural backgrounds marry more challenges are to be expected than usual. Irmeli ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
