rootX said:I have no knowledge but I wonder if it were Aryans (who were white Europeans I believe) that decided to discriminate against dark Indians. I neither know if there were light brown Indians before Aryans. Also, it might be that it were the Aryans who introduced Hinduism.
(Not hard factual information:
http://hinduism.suite101.com/article.cfm/hinduism_and_the_aryan_influence
http://adaniel.tripod.com/historycaste.htm
)
sganesh88 said:I have agreed that casteism exists in India. I am just pointing out why i didn't like the film. I think its prime motive is to show India as a dangerous place (this isn't the only one that attempted it). I found it distasteful because they showed all the problems occurring to a single person. I said this already. Its like a third person filming your house for an year; Taking out those particular scenes where you people fight; Then using the portions for an one hour film. What would that film make others think of your family? They may title it "Fight Club".
If you still argue that that was wholly unintentional, well.. *sigh*
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If movies portrayed real life places and situations like they are in real life we would see a lot of ugly people sitting on the toilet, watching tv on the couch, surfing for porn on the internet, sifting through e-mails about cheap viagra only to find that they have not received e-mail from a real person today, and having trivial arguments with people on internet forums.