{"id":9381,"date":"1999-11-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/1999\/11\/29\/india-s-caste-system-and-american-society-similarities\/"},"modified":"1999-11-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T12:00:00","slug":"india-s-caste-system-and-american-society-similarities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/1999\/11\/29\/india-s-caste-system-and-american-society-similarities\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Caste System and American Society: Similarities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwf.edu\/lgoel\/Caste--India's%20Caste%20System%20and%20Amer%20Pluralism.docx\">www.uwf.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: Dr. M. Lal Goel, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at The University of West Florida, wrote about the similarities between India&#8217;s caste system and American society. You can read the full article at the source link, above. Here is a summary provided by the author.]<\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, July 30, 2010: A recent article in Newsweek by Lisa Miller indicated that Americans &#8220;are slowly becoming more like Hindus and less like traditional Christians in the ways we think about God, our selves, each other, and eternity.&#8221; The author cites the following poll data: 67 percent of Americans believe that many religions, not only Christianity can lead to eternal life, reflecting pluralistic Hindu ethos rather than monotheistic Christian view; 30 percent of Americans call themselves &#8220;spiritual, not religious;&#8221; 24 percent say they believe in reincarnation; and more than a third choose cremation rather than burial. <\/p>\n<p>To this list may be added the growing caste-like pluralism and multiculturalism of the American populace. This essay describes features of India&#8217;s caste system, its origin, the negative impact of Muslim and British imperial rule, and concludes with a description of the American social landscape.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.uwf.edu [HPI note: Dr. M. Lal Goel, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at The University of West Florida, wrote,&#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-9381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381","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=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}