In a report in todays Times (England) by Jeremy Page the word Caste derives from the Portuguese casta, meaning breed race or kind.I found this quite interesting as I enquired sometime as to what makes us the way we are, the Indian Gene or the Portuguese.In science within the Magnetic field like poles repel and unlike poles attract, the cause of our people spending half their lives fighting, fighting instead of looking at issues and finding soloutions.
Ever since independence in 1947 Indian Goverments have tried in vain to break down the oomplex caste system which divides society into hereditary heirarchical groups. Most Indians educational, professional and marriage proposals are still determined at birth by their place in the hierarchy which ranges from Brahmins at the top to Dalits, or untouchables at the bottom. Despite the economic boom Indias cast system is becoming ever more entrenched. Intercaste marriges have been permitted by Indian law since 1955 and children traditionally assume the fathers caste status one only has to look at the Goan Village organisations around the world to understand this. In London England we have one Goan Community with over 50 Presidents representing us with / witout any Constitutions Can we ever have a Soloution to unity. Melvyn Fernandes 65 Windsor Road Thornton Heath England CR7 8HJ Mobile 07970 668879 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20060915/0bb3a60d/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
