Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:11:40 -0500 From: "Goanet News Service" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=111829
> Mario adds: > Kudos to Tomazinho Cardozo for writing about the caste system, especially among Goan Christians. > However, Cardozo has been far too measured and polite in dispassionately outlining this issue. > This abhorrent system victimises your fellow human beings, for God's sake. Yet, India and Indians assume a self-righteous moral superiority over everyone else. Humbug! Hypocrites! > The caste system is one of the most diabolical social systems of discrimination against fellow human beings ever devised, all the excuses for how it started notwithstanding. It is even more heinous when used by Christians, who thereby confirm that they are pious hypocrites. It is as bad as apartheid, which came centuries later. > What make both these systems especially offensive is the fact that they lock a person into his or her place, and their heirs as well, simply by the accident of birth, with no end in sight, no recourse, simply nothing that an individual can do but cope or suffer. Can anything be more cruel and inhumane? > I'm sure everyone reading this has seen perfectly wonderful individuals victimized by this insane system and made miserable for the rest of their lives. Some of you have experienced this gratuitous misery yourselves. > It is high time that someone opened up this can of worms, this deplorable abomination to scrutiny, but far more needs to be done. Just like the societal carelessness in India that I have described in another post, it is high time that every well-meaning Indian rise up and begin to demolish this atrocity, starting in their own homes. Christians need to play a leading role. > How can India become a world superpower if we do not incinerate the original manual on discrimination that was written in our country centuries ago and all the misery it has brought to so many innocent Indians, even though it may have helped some who benefitted from it along the way? >