Disco and Drugs Trade

[Dave the OAP]

But that isn't what you put, you wrote that you felt ''uncomfortable'' discussing the caste system , you didn't put anything about being ''angry'' , so my original point stands , handwringing at it's worst. And i have no doubt we have a different outlook on life

Oh for goodness sake. Tell you what..put me on ignore and I'll put you on ignore...then our lives will be most enriched by not having to read each others horseshit

Bye bye

 

[alfredmizen]

Oh for goodness sake. Tell you what..put me on ignore and I'll put you on ignore...then our lives will be most enriched by not having to read each others horseshit

Bye bye

tell you what, dont post something then backtrack and claim you meant something completely different , then you wont have to ready my ''horseshit''.

 

[Nibble]

I see Bushy has started 2016 in fine fettle. Top stuff.

 

[Commander]

I always feel uncomfortable when discussing the caste system with our Indian colleagues at work. To think that someone won't be given a job they are highly qualified for because there is someone else who may be useless, but comes from a higher caste, they will get the job. To think of the outrage and quite rightly that apartheid was viewed around the world, yet we as a civilised society allow India to get away with this.

This sort of viewpoint always amuses me somewhat. It's a racist viewpoint in my opinion. The notion that 'we', 'as a civilised society', 'allow' a nation of a billion people to 'get away' with having their own system of society that they've had for years, rather than conforming to ours. Astonishing. Why is our way better than theirs? Because we say it is, and we're civilised and they aren't?

How is that possibly not racist to think like that? At best, it's horrendous arrogance. It's along the same lines as the missionaries going over to Africa and telling the tribes that they were wicked and needed to conform to Christianity instead of the system they'd had for hundreds of years. Just because we think our way is right for us, it doesn't mean it is for everyone else.