Re: Punjabi Sikh Toasts in the UK: "Jatt Girls Going Down the Drain"
A few things I will like to mention. No society is free from discrimination. In sikhism there are dalit Sikhs and Jat Sikhs. In Muslims of south Asia, there are higher castes like Syed, Ashraf, Pathan; middle castes like malik, so called lower castes like zulaha, Pasmanda, Rangrez, Momin etc. The social and economic distinctions between these Muslim castes are much more wider than social distinctions between various castes of Hinduism. Most of the land owned by Muslim community is owned by their upper castes. Same within other religious people. I see that Buddhists talk about caste system as evil in Hinduism. Well they should know about social stratification and untouchability in Tibet society and of course you can see in Japanese movies of Mizoghuchi and Masaki Kobayashi that how lower class people were treated in Shinto and Buddhist societies of Japan.
Now I will like to talk about UK. Last year a night club dancer was refused to have a wedding at a hotel, whose owners claimed that they don't want to have cheap people at their place. This is a serious denigration of any human being. A society which claims to be liberated cannot look down upon it's members because of their profession. The same britishers have been successful in spreading a myth that 'Hinduism' supports and breeds casteism. Yes, I accept casteism is a very very big social issue in South Asia, but it is not limited to Hinduism. It happens because of bad people, senseless people, illiteracy, tribalism, poverty and many other reasons. But it is prevalent in people of all religions. Also, even outside South Asia there are class discriminations. As a human being we should fight against any form of class discrimination.
Last edited by isavasya; 06 December 2013 at 09:51 PM.
When the light has risen, there is no day, no night, neither existence nor non-existence; Siva alone is there. That is the eternal, the adorable light of Savitri, - and the ancient wisdom proceeded thence (Svetasvatara Upanishad IV-18). :)
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