[1] re: this from me: jc ....sub Harijan Kunbi or lower (if there is such a classification)
[2] Joaquim Loiola Pereira wrote: Zuze-Bab, why isn't every Goan like you? RESPONSE: Dear Fr. Joaquim Loiola Pereira, Thanks to my parents and the Jesuit up bringing in Poona esp with Fr Vasco do Rego SJ & Fr. Romualdo de Souza SJ as my guidance counselors at SVHS, I was (mercifully) quite ignorant of this 'caste' discrimination until I moved to Goa. Even so, I was not as shocked by the 'caste' related issues until I read widely for the article on the Caste System of India.....including the DNA studies. [ http://www.colaco.net/1/caste.htm ] As far as I am concerned, we Catholics are called upon to treat every person fairly and equally. We either do that or we are NOT Christians. Furthermore, those among us who, in 2012, KNOWINGLY practice or propagate the "caste" discrimination could NOT classify themselves as Catholics. They have NOT converted. By any reasonable standards, they are what they were before the so-called conversion of their forebears. jc
