"Antonio Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Selma, you are not, no matter, what Edward deSilva thinks you are. Caste system is found only among Indians therefore International Standards cannot be applied, As far as my knowledge of caste system goes, a child cannot aspire to claim any other caste than that of his or her father. ------ Reply, If any one has seen Lawrence of Arabia - the opening scene is. A man is shot dead by the well. Explanation? He is a Bedu, he is a low caste. Only Indians believe in caste is it? To believe what Antonio said is to believe what Albert said some time ago, and I too believed in it when I was a child. - TIE GARLIC ROUND YOUR NECK TO WARD OFF THE DEVIL, OR EVEN PUT ONE UNDER YOUR PILLOW TO STOP ONE GETTING NIGHTMARES. Old village women come with 'Mirsang' (red chilly) to take away evil. Can there be a PAKLO Bamon? Well! some one said there is. This is the 21st century, its about time we changed our - 'old wives tales' - thinking. But, No one can stop you from believing what you want to believe. Adam and Eve story is a STORY. Same way Goan Caste, descended from the father to the child is also a story, illiterate old women talking rubbish. In humans, mitochondrial DNA appears to be 100% inherited from the mother, and maternal lineage can be traced back hundreds of generations based on studies of mtDNA. www.kromosoft.com/geneticterms/ TAKE NOTE: maternal lineage. ED.
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