Sat Dec 8 03:02:48 PST 2007
>From Gabe Menezes gabe.menezes at gmail.com
>
You really need to read the whole piece, because of
your rudimentary economic model, that you seem to
think will make women better off ! (in India)
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Mario responds:
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Gabe,
>
Only time will tell whether your "sage" sources are
right or not about the consequences of the growing
disparity between the number of men versus women in
India, or my "rudimentary" opinion.
>
However, it is good to know you have no opinion on
this as well as many other topics that you opine on on
Goanet:-))
>
However, before we got off on this tangent, the main
point I was making in response to the peculiar concern
that had been raised about the very rare incidents of
sati in modern India was that a far more common
problem in India was that of coerced dowries and the
greed involved in that. I even put it in the subject
of this thread, making it "Sati tradition or greed?
How about coerced dowry and greed?"
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Here is what I wrote:
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"The far more serious societal abomination that
continues is the diabolical practice of coerced
dowries, sometimes continuing and even escalating
after the marriage and leading to vicious mental and
physical abuse of the woman by the man and his family,
including the ultimate expression of greed, the
bone-chilling incidents of bride burning.
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It is one thing for the bride's family to voluntarily
give her her share of the inheritance when she needs
it most, and quite another for the groom's family to
pretend that they are selling their son to the highest
bidder."
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I guess no one has an opinion on coerced dowries and
the greed involved, hanh, Gabe? Far more important to
throw red herrings at the caste system and to
disparage Catholic schools and the danger they pose
for the kids who go to school there, not to mention
the danger they pose to the parent's bank accounts,
especially in the United States:-))
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