If an indian is a high caste or something does that mean that he gets some type of privilage over certain things?
I don't get the whole caste thing in India
I have noticed that Brahmins talk about their caste the exact same way Chuds talk about whiteness. Like how the woke establishment is anti brahmin and want to eradicate brahmins
You could have googled that instead of making a thread.
SAAAAAAAAAAAR
just wanted to bait indians with firstie flags
seems like I got two little poop eating fishes
I literally made an anti Indian post. Is the latinx mind this feeble?
and how the fuck do you know what a brahmin is
only indians know about this dumb shit
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In modern times, people of "lower castes" get a lot of affirmative action and most of the politicians are lower caste (including Modi himself). Over half of government jobs and government university seats are reserved for people of lower castes.
Source:
en.wikipedia.org
Brahmins have very little political representation and there have been numerous pogroms against Brahmins. This is why they feel that the establishment is against them.
I'm not a Brahmin, but I kind of empathize with them. They're basically like Jews during Nazi Germany
Do high-caste Indians get pissed off that people think of them as the same as low-caste Indians here? No one keeps up with that stuff.
I’m Brahmin and White.
That one guy does. But the average upper caste person doesn't care about caste in my experience, except in certain institutions like marriage. Marriages are still overwhelmingly within the same caste (over 90 percent). But caste discrimination is almost non existent or imagined, at least in cities. Usually when you hear about caste conflict in the news, it's lower caste people fucking up other lower castes in some village
Why don't you just renounce your brahmin status then? No one gives a shit in the West
kek found the snake in the grass
lol yeah right.
I'm being all egalitarian and stuff, but wonder if the experience might be different for the lower castes. Had to look up if Brahmin was high or low.
does that mean that he gets some type of privilage over certain things
not at all
in fact the exact opposite is true. the backwards castes get an infinite amount of privilege, in hiring, in education, in everywhere else
I'm not a Brahmin. I think Brahmins think of themselves as a community rather than a "status". It's like renouncing that you are a Protestant or a Jew. They have certain rules that only they follow (diet, reading vedas, wearing a sacred thread etc). Brahmins have also faced persecution, so they have developed a victim complex.
don't call yourself a pajeet
What happens when lower caste gets rich?
Do they get upgraded to higher caste?
If so, who gets to decide that, is there some sort of caste council?
No, of course I don't get pissed off. why would I assume you know anything about india.
Do they get upgraded to higher caste?
Yeah it's like an airplane bro
Dude, there's nothing like that.
"Caste" usually means jati. Jati is like a tribe or community. People aren't upgrading or changing caste identities anymore. In the past it used to happen, that Shudras became Kshatriyas or Brahmins. But nowadays it's a tremendous advantage to be lowe caste because of affirmative action, so lower caste people are very fiercely proud of their caste and don't want to "become upper caste". Personally I think lower caste people are much more casteist than upper caste people, but some lower caste anon will come to this thread and play victim and say he is oppressed or something
But if Brahmins are being discriminated, then all you have to do is not telling anyone that you are brahmin... How would an employer know you are one unless you say "hello saar i am brahmin!"
That's nice at least I guess. Thought it might be like calling a Stockholmer a country bumpkin or something. They like to call the rest of Sweden that.
They have Brahmin surnames
Can indians tell what caste a person is just by looking at them?
You people really care alot about this thing you claim doesn't matter anymore
no. why is everyone in the new world obsessed with looks? same hardware != same software. Looks should not be the only differentiator. Caste differentiation is based on community customs and ideology followed
locals here tell me that within the indian community the higher castes murder lower castes who dare to make it big.
Well as long as you don't expect non-Indians to care about it
no one does except some pea-brained tards on xitter
What about their clothes or general behavior?
No
They care about it in certain institutions like marriage. Like I said, caste is more like a tribe. People love their own jati (tribe) and most of the Indian politics is about looking after your own caste/jati.
The western image of caste is that it's like a hierarchy where the lower castes want to become upper caste, or have been forced against their will to be lower castes. But the lower castes are actually proud of their respective castes. Like chamars are proud to be chamars. Or they wouldn't be writing on the back of their bike that they are chamars and making edits like this
youtube.com
still no. lower caste and upper caste niggas in the same economic class/background behave similar. street shitting is more of a poverty thing than anything else. obsession with cow shit is also a rural thing.
among indian americans and other indian immigrants, caste quite literally doesn't matter at all
it's come up in conversation maybe like a dozen times in my LIFE with my parents. it's not something we ever talk or think about. I am aware I am a brahmin, that generally means we are vegetarian, that's about it. some brahmins also follow satvik dietary restrictions, which means not eating garlic, mushrooms, and anything else that grows in the ground.
while explicit caste-based rituals aren't really discussed, practices like being vegetarian or the satvik thing I mentioned up above definitely are.
I might be over-generalizing here. it's possible that some poor and conservative immigrants in Canada and the UK still hold caste in high (maybe discriminatory) esteem, and there are also some communities that are far more tight knit than telugu brahmins are. (for example, the kamma's are known to be very tight knit, and they work together to buy up motels in certain parts of the country)
that isn't really the case for most indian immigrants I've met though. in fact, among my indian friends, I don't even know their caste at all. why the fuck would it ever come up in the USA among second gen+ immigrants.
all these american pajeets
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stop nooticing right now!
I am thinking about heading down to Brazil with a brazilian friend soon. any places you recommend I check out?
maybe I should move there. Maybe I should move 1000 indians there. It would be easy for me to do you know. If I put up ads for Brazilian immigration in Hyderabad, some pictures of the Rio skyline, I could get 10000s of interested people within weeks. Could probably make good money doing this.
can't you just pretend to be a higher caste?
I am thinking about heading down to Brazil with a brazilian friend soon.
Places that are not Rio or just beaches.
pardo, I've always namefagged
you can but there is no merit for doing so.
I think the best way to think about this for you might be a version of race specific to india.
can you pretend to be another race?
well, maybe. but nobody would really do that. there's really no alpha to be gained in a mexican pretending to be arab, or something like that.
Then how will they get reservations in jobs and colleges?
pardo
you post your hand and i post mine ok?
I am brown ye pardo and I don't care about being white...that's more of your larp