Steve writes:
The two were brothers, and yeah their parents care but they don’t care at all. Isn’t that interesting? The parents really care, and just one generation later and they don’t care at all. What about in three more generations when there is no first generation influence? Personally, I’m not sure they will even be Hindu.
As for when it will die out in India. Caste is a rural, pre-modern social phenomenon. In cities, lots of people will enter jobs and professions that don’t match their caste. People will be forced to mingle more. Knowing human beings, people will fall in love and date outside their caste. There will be a gradual weakening of caste plus a significant influence from outside India as more Indians come online. People will become more open minded. As there is very little biological basis for caste, there is less reason for people to maintain its importance.
There will probably be popular ‘liberal’ type of movements against it when India is more developed. It basically makes no sense and it will be hard to make an argument in favor of it.
It will last longer in rural areas but what happens in the cities will gradually spread to rural areas.
I might be wrong but I don’t see caste lasting on a time scale of one or two hundred years.
India has existed for 66 years. Has caste died out in that time? How many Indians now are marrying outside their caste? Look at all these Indian Hindu monsters who came to this blog. How many of them spoke against caste or denounced it? Basically not even a single one except maybe ILOR. High caste Indians don’t want to give up caste!
Is caste dying out in Indian cities?
Word is that 100% of the Hindu 1-B’s who come to the US are ferocious practitioners of caste. They destroy most software establishments where they work because the different castes all hate each other and refuse to work together. Also Indian managers come in, fire all the Whites and replace them with Indians, generally from their own caste.
I have spoken to quite a few Sikhs around here, and almost all of them practice caste. If they come from India, they practice caste, period. They defend it, and they don’t want to give it up. 100% of the US Hindus I have met practice caste. If a Hindu came from India, they practice caste.
Bottom line is about 100% of high caste Hindus and Sikhs practice caste. They don’t want to give it up!
As far as the second generation goes, I have no idea. They are pretty Americanized.
