I read the responses.
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Don't like it.
Don't care.
Your attitude says you haven't understood, and you're not even listening, as we explained that modern Indian caste system isn't Hindu.
Ever heard of "white trash"? Yeah. That's effectively a caste system. I'm part of one of the lower rungs of society (lower working class), and I've been refused jobs for "coming from an undesirable background and living in an undesirable area". Take the speck out of your own society's collective eye before you go around criticising others', even if it's a valid point.
Also, your "won't listen to others who adopted it" comes across as racist and ignorant. Please don't make such disparaging remarks on something you obviously don't seem to understand. If you DID understand it, you'd know nobody here is saying they like how it's done in modern society.
There's caste systems in dozens of societies. Nepal has one, so does Sri Lanka's Buddhist communities. Many Sikhs even follow caste despite being prohibited from doing so. Even Muslims and Christians in South Asia follow it. Japan had a caste system, as did Korea. As do some African countries, even Hawai'i did. So did Yemen. Nigeria and Cameroon, the Mandé of West Africa, in Rwanda and Burundi, in Southern Ethiopia, and we even find Algeria. Even Tuaregs have caste systems. It's a common thing.
It's not to be supported, but making foolish, clueless statements and being rude doesn't help anyone.
You won't find anyone here who supports the modern caste system, and you will find it slowly being eroded. Not fast enough, but two-thousand plus year old habits die hard.
Here's a partial list of born Hindus and Indians who actively went against the caste system of their day.
- Vardhamana (Mahavira)
- Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
- Guru Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh
- Saint Kabir
- Caitanya
- Dnyaneshwar
- Eknath
- Ramanuja
- Tukaram
- Swami Vivekananda
- Ramananda
- Nandanar
- Sri Aurobindo
- AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati
- Paramahansa Yogananda
- Ravidass
- Basava
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Mannathu Padmanabhan
- Narayana Guru
- Ambedkar
- ...and Sathya Sai Baba.
There's more. Want me to carry on listing them?
People have been trying to curb the caste system who were Hindus for a long time. You insulting whole groups of people, and effectively calling converts "clueless" is pretty ignorant and condescending.
Does that help? Now, can we go back to intelligent conversation now I've pointed out a few basic facts?