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#777863
anonymous
GTFO OFF MY PLANET
11/22/2008 12:36:21 AM
#777881
john
@#825962: "... the caste system has only tenuous connections to religion."
WTF? Are you serious?
11/22/2008 12:51:56 AM
#777888
WMDKitty
Sad.
11/22/2008 12:56:33 AM
#777901
This is too sad for words.
11/22/2008 1:06:01 AM
#777921
Mayhem
Disgusting.
Ripley: "I say we nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
11/22/2008 1:36:09 AM
#777922
Wait, the family from the lower caste felt they were dishonoured?
Not that I know much about India, but this is both cruel and makes no damn sense.
11/22/2008 1:37:15 AM
#777937
GreenEyedLilo
This is so sad. So awful. In so many ways, India is modernizing quickly, but too many lives are lost or ruined due to this.
In the new issue of National Geographic (also features an interesting cover article on "the Real King Herod" which reveals his good points), there is an article about how "untouchable" women have been recruited to help provide health care to their villages. The ways these women report having been treated are unbearable to read, just like this news report.
11/22/2008 1:52:47 AM
#777942
Antichrist
And this is where we're sending our jobs.....
Great, just fucking great.
11/22/2008 1:53:31 AM
#777945
tracer
I thought Henry Thoreau organized is sit-in that basically did away with the notion of "untouchables" over a century ago.
11/22/2008 1:55:57 AM
#777992
myheadhurts
daggers and poison seem a lot more tame now
11/22/2008 2:39:50 AM
#778017
Reverend Jeremiah
Religion is a beautiful thing..isnt it?
11/22/2008 2:59:51 AM
#778057
Amanduh
Guys the caste system is TOTALLY religious. They believe that you are reincarnated into a higher caste if you were a "good person" (which means living by the accepted standards of your caste). People in the higher castes aren't even supposed to touch someone a couple of levels lower. Totally religious and totally fundie.
11/22/2008 4:23:46 AM
#778066
LOLWUT
Ahh, religion. Truly worthy of respect once again. This story makes me sick. What the hell is wrong with people? India is such a strange country. On one end they have highly educated and sophisticated scientists and engineers that send spaceprobes to the Moon... and in the other end, this.
And what's up with rural areas being so desperately backwards and conservative, so primitive?
11/22/2008 4:31:37 AM
#778068
Skyknight
Which, I suppose, explains the washermen caste's ire. The woman was being tempted to breach caste protocol, and so potentially disgrace all her kin. Solution: kill the "tempter".
It doesn't help that, if what I saw in a part of Tezuka Osamu's manga about the Buddha's life is anything to go by, caste is thought to be THE thing that separates humans from animals.
11/22/2008 4:32:21 AM
#778072
Elia
Damn, that's one thing about Hinduism that I think really needs to be thrown out. It has no place in the modern world. And this is a country that had a woman for Prime Minister(?) long before the US even faced the chances of a non-white president! WTF man?
11/22/2008 4:41:37 AM
#778137
1BurningStake
I agree it's Fundamentalist, since it's about tribal thinking influenced by religion. I feel so sorry for this boy (and girl,) though of course there's nothing that can be done about it now. Unless someone uses their powers of time-space manipulation.
I wonder if this is one of those booming areas of India, or one of those that got left behind by moderenist thinking, like "It's okay to marrywho you want, since castes are influenced by ancient tribalist survivalist thinking." I wonder if it would have been worse had he fallen in love with another boy from that caste?
11/22/2008 5:46:30 AM
#778301
Psittacosis
And caste has little to do to with economic status. Certain occupations are traditionally reserved for certain castes, but even if you transcend your roots and become a millionaire, you are still of the caste of your birth. There are (a few) rich Harijans, and (lots of) poor Brahmins. It's religious, it's fundie, and it sucks.
11/22/2008 10:50:15 AM
#778323
Lou
Can't say anithing about this, as it is basicaly another world... It's up tu hindues to decide how they react in front of this behavior
Just because it happened in another culture doesn't mean you can't question their methods. They killed a 15-year-old boy for a fucking stupid reason. Does that not seem horribly
wrong to you?
11/22/2008 11:20:31 AM
#778329
Brain_In_A_Jar
Even if it weren't religious, killing another person for no other reason than being an outsider is pretty damn fundamentalist; dogmatically following a crude, all encompassing rule enforced exclusively by tradition without a shred of rational justification.
11/22/2008 11:27:52 AM
#778344
Dr. Gus
Religion, don't you just love it?
11/22/2008 11:50:16 AM
#778347
Arcturus
Well at least romance isn't dead. Jesus.
11/22/2008 11:53:56 AM
#778446
FMG
The main problem with this is the boy is a Yadav...
The Yadavs are famed for their repeated fights against the caste system. Their VIOLENT reprisals against the higher castes were instrumental in a sort of downfall of the higher caste strata of bihar.
The current railway minister of India is a Yadav and when he was chief minister he came to actual power through the use of violence. I expect a monster backlash from his goons.
Also, its from Bihar. The only good thing to come out of there was the Buddha... Since then it's been downhill.
11/22/2008 1:17:55 PM
#778461
Afwo
I was under the impression that India had abolished the caste system some time ago. Sadly I was wrong.
11/22/2008 1:29:22 PM
#778462
Afwo
I was under the impression that India had abolished the caste system some time ago. Sadly I was wrong.
11/22/2008 1:29:23 PM
#778463
welcome to fucked up india - where you must always "save the family's honor", but corruption, bribery and exploitation is widely accepted.
11/22/2008 1:29:31 PM
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