Thank you Gabe and Gabriel for your responses, one from England and one
from Australia. My original question of a few months ago was "Is there
any Goanetter who has married outside of his/her caste - or is my
husband the only one?" It was a tongue-in-cheek question, met with
deafening silence.
As an "outsider" I find the whole caste thing to be very interesting.
Is it really much different from the "class system" in England from the
last centuries - as I understand that system you can never really "move
up" and there's no reincarnation to look forward to for an improvement
of your station, either.
Whenever I asked Ariosto (in the past, I don't bother any more!) about
his caste he tells me he doesn't know anything about it but maybe his
elder sisters do. So of course I picked their brains to find out what I
could.
It's pretty much the same in Sicily, there are the Signori (the "Sirs")
and then there's the rest of us poor slobs. The system doesn't have a
name as far as I know.
Viviana
Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote:
--- Viviana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes! I should be sacked immediately, I agree!
:-)))
By the way, a few months ago I asked if anyone on
the list had married
outside of his/her caste and received no response.
Viviana (without caste!)
Quite difficult to reply to this one - those who
believe in caste will stay within their caste and thus
have no grounds to reply; those who don't believe in
caste of course cannot reply :-))
Cheers,
Gabriel de Figueiredo.
Melbourne - Australia.
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