zarzari: > Nobody spoke of blood type. Think of idioms > like `its in the blood`... > The 'caste system' in India is a foreign idea, imported into South Asia with the arrival of the Arya-speakers from the Caucasus area. The native inhabitants did not have a social system based on skin color or 'caste', which is a word from Portugeuse meaning 'color'.
So, the caste system is not apparently 'in their blood', but in the blood of the immigrants who supported class distinctions before their arrival in 1500 BC. The indigenous people of South Asia do not base their social system on race, since they are mostly made up of Dravidian clans and tribes of mixed ethnicity with linguistic distinctions. That was my point.
