Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:57:06 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@lpt.ens.fr> Cc: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <3BB6A622.58C86193@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> <20010930021157.A315@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Terry Lambert said on Sep 29, 2001 at 11:47:42: > > 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). > > In my earlier reply to this, I assumed by "caste mark" you meant the > "bindi" (the name varies from region to region), the spot which women > often wear in the centre of the forehead, since that's the only thing > I can think of which may distinguish an Indian woman from a non-Indian > woman. Correct me if that's not what you meant. As I said earlier, > not only does it not indicate caste, very often it does not indicate > religion either. (Nor nationality, since you will see it in Nepal, > Sri Lanka, and perhaps Bangladesh. In fact, I've seen it worn by > French women in France; when I asked a waitress in a restaurant about > the one she was wearing, she said it was just for "fun.") > > You *may* be thinking of forehead markings worn for religious reasons > which tend to vary among castes (eg, Iyengars in the south have a > peculiar style, and this is sported only by the men, not the women). > These are increasingly rare even in India except in traditional > settings and religious occasions, so while I could be charitable and > assume that you were thinking of some such thing, This is, in fact, the case, at least for the examples I was giving, according to the examples themselves ...as I pointed out in a previous email. > it's far more likely > that as usual you stepped way out of your field of expertise and don't > have a clue what you're talking about. Can we stop with the ad hominim attacks already? They do not make your arguments more persuasive. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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