Thread 18142389

how did the caste system even become a thing? and why is india the only country that has it? also, is the horrific hygiene of india due to the caste system? i've seen people say upper caste indians will litter and pollute the place because they expect lower caste indians to clean it up.

all asian countries had extensive caste systems they just don't talk about them. The japanese had a similar system of untouchable career paths that you were born into. I think they come about naturally in old civilizations that were also comparatively underdeveloped so a strict hierarchy was created to maintain society where otherwise there was nothing

It existed everywhere. All civilizations had caste systems until Christianity destroyed it under the belief that all are equal in God's eyes

The pollution in India has more to do with their culture, which places extreme concern towards their appearances and reputation than actual merit. Higher castes don't want to clean because it makes them look bad. Lower castes don't want to clean because they either want to be perceived as higher or out of spite

Japan had caste systems too, except that it revolved around seniority. It is super strict that they still have a fax machine because the boomers are in charge and they refuse to innovate, which is the second largest factor to their economic stagnation. Their biggest corps are all over 40 years old. Nothing new ever came up because they refuse to entertain new blood

Also, this seniority system is ridiculous to the point that even if it was just a day of difference, it means that the older one is in charge and you are not allowed to question it. Those who stand out get hammered down

Similar things happened in Rome, Greece, and other countries until Christianity came along

>>18142396
Strict caste systems are more necessary than ever today. Viewing old civilizations with disdain is arrogance that could lead to the fall of society as we know it. We had already reached the peak of what civilizations had to offer more than 2000 years ago.

>>18142389 (OP)
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>>18142411
>Japan had caste systems too, except that it revolved around seniority.

Nah, man, in old times they had literal caste systems with untouchables ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin ) and dealing with death like being an undertaker or I think even a leather-maker was viewed as unclean as it was in old Judaism. (The old Shinto view of what's "unclean" is suspiciously Old Testament Jewish to the point of "parturition huts," menstrual isolation, sex rendering someone unfit for religious pilgrimages, and both birth and death being such sources of pollution that the very ill, or expectant mothers, were banished from the Emperor's palace to their family houses.)

>>18142823
The old "Shinto" caste system is in fact largely a byproduct of the introduction of Buddhism.

AASI ANCESTRY.

This is why caste is a uniquely indian problem.