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Caste System

Caste System

I. INTRODUCTION Are you really what you eat? Why are people born with certain
unique tendencies? Are matter and spirit separate, or the same? Although seemingly
unrelated, these questions are unified by the subject under consideration in this paper: the
Hindu caste system. The caste system itself is unified by the concern of ritual purity.
According to the Encyclop?dia Britannica: the caste system has been a dominating aspect
of social organization for thousands of years. A caste, generally designated by the term jati
("birth"), refers to a strictly regulated social community into which one is born. In general,
a person is expected to marry someone within the same jati, follow a particular set of rules
for proper behavior (in such matters as kinship, occupation, and diet), and interact with
other jatis according to the group's position in the social hierarchy. ("India") Among
Hindus, the thousands of jatis are grouped into four large clusters called varnas, which is
loosely translated as “color”. Whether this refers to skin color or to attributes of character
depends on one’s perspective. Kelly Ross, a non-Hindu college philosophy instructor,
believes that “these sound suspiciously like skin colors; and, indeed, there is an
expectation in India that higher caste people will have lighter skin.” In contrast, a Hindu
web page asserts that

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