On Monday 24 Nov 2008 3:07:43 am Charles Haynes wrote: > Certainly that's the impression I got. Please correct me if I'm wrong, > but haven't Brahmins in the past been notorious for behaving exactly > opposite to their professed ideals
Are you asking me if all Brahimns behaved in this way? All of several tens of millions of them? If you think so you are wrong. The problem is the continuous smearing of Brahmins when a very large proportion of Brahmins have been law abiding, poor and studious and nothing more. The "impression" you have is at least in part a result of that. If people were serious about how figuring out what Brahmin behavior really is like India would stop considering it un-PC to talk about this and accept a cosy situation in which Brahmins can be cursed and not defndd. A poll on silk list of exactly how many silk listers and their Brahmin ancsetors behaved in the way that your impression tells you should reveal something. It would teach me something too if I heard that all of them behaved in the exact opposite of their professed ideals. That is patently wrong and unfair. The problem with many Bahmin is that they ge kicked and prefer not to complain. The of Tamil Nadu in India has been guilty of targeted Brahmin ethnic cleansing - which explains why a lot of Tam Brams (Tamil Brahmins) live outside that state, shiv
