Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:52:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <3BB6A529.1C45D0EF@mindspring.com> References: <1001447850.3bb0e1aa11dfc@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010925222900.A71817@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB216E8.89F3419@mindspring.com> <20010926202630.C10954@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB427FD.61AE3E6A@mindspring.com> <20010928144755.C7471@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6174E.BCDCCAA6@mindspring.com> <20010930003318.A384@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Another example of your ignorance of anything except CIA statistics. > The inhomogeneity is historical. Well, then clearly it must be a "good thing", right? > > caste system within the country (many Indian women even in > > the U.S. tend to wear caste marks, still; I know many who > > do... I saw three at work yesterday). > > Those aren't caste marks. They do tend to be associated with Hindus, > but it is mostly just tradition, and to a large extent cosmetic: for > that reason many Muslims and Christians (women) wear them occasionally > in India (to Indian eyes it looks good). Partly it is dictated by > dress: that is, they tend to wear them with Indian dress and > particularly with sarees, but not with western dress. Perhaps you > should take the trouble to ask your colleagues before spouting off on > mailing lists. Good answer to a parenthetical observation, while ducking the main point, which was that India's society has been historically segregated, and that this is the root of many of the social ills which we do not see frequently in the U.S., unless they are enacted by outside agents (as in the 11 September attacks). To answer your claim about "spouting off": I was _told_ by two of those collegues that they were caste marks. So while your general claims of "fashion" may be correct, in the specific instances I was citing, you are wrong. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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