On 24/04/2008, CORNEL DACOSTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gabe > The quote you kindly provided from the Daily Mail says > "scientists have found out that we are hard-wired to > care about social status." I can't quibble with this > view at all and the Catholic Goans are no exception to > this view. ............................CASTE status > is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE as it is attributed to an > accident of birth and pr-determined on highly dubious > criteria that will NEVER change.
> Kind regards > > Cornel QUESTION: So the inheritors in the Old World (Europe) i.e. Kings, Queens, Princes and so on and so forth are not an accident by birth?. I find this extremely perplexing. To put it bluntly, I would say that I wouldn't begrudge any one being born of any Caste or status. I would expect them to behave accordingly and with dignity towards their fellow human beings. With generosity, if they are well endowed - I believe this was the system of the feudal Lords, as well as the Bhatcars of old. Needless to say, there were exceptions to the rule but I would think, that if one was an oppressor than one wouldn't get the work done, or get it done begrudgingly and with curses thrown in for good measure? -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England
