{"id":3727,"date":"2003-11-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/11\/21\/2003-11-21-how-do-you-answer-questions-about-caste\/"},"modified":"2003-11-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-21T12:00:00","slug":"2003-11-21-how-do-you-answer-questions-about-caste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/11\/21\/2003-11-21-how-do-you-answer-questions-about-caste\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Answer Questions About Caste?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"mailto:ar@hindu.org\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>KAUAI, HAWAII, November 21, 2003: Hinduism Today magazine is preparing an article with replies to common questions about Hinduism, such as why are there so many Gods, why the dot on the forehead, why do you worship cows, etc. One of the common questions is about caste: Isn&#8217;t the caste system a kind of unfair discrimination? <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re working to formulate a response to this kind of question and would appreciate input from readers addressing one or more of the following aspects of caste and the jati system:<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nHow do people in India (or the diaspora) regard caste and jati today? <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nDoes it remain a significant factor in their lives? <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nAre there positive aspects of caste? <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nDo Hindus really want to get &#8220;rid&#8221; of caste? <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nHow important is caste at the time of marriage? <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nDo people really have a sense of &#8220;caste superiority,&#8221; ie, that as a brahmin or kshatriya they should look down upon the sudras? <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nWhat comparisons are there between the caste system of India and discriminatory systems in other countries, such as the British class system, or American racial segregation?<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nWhat do you make of the harsh rules enforcing caste in the dharma shastras?<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nDo converts to other religions in India escape caste, or does their caste follow them to the new faith?<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nKindly send your reply to &#8220;source&#8221; above.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceKAUAI, HAWAII, November 21, 2003: Hinduism Today magazine is preparing an article with replies to common questions about Hinduism, such,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}