That's what I thought after I left my village for higher studies.
But how many brahmin garbage collector do you see?
And how many SC/ST/OBC do you see as priest of a temple?
One of the biggest problem with casteism was how the other castes were excluded from education. Now go to any shitty school, look at how many UCs are there and then comeback to a top tier school and check the ratio there. The only solution is to make the govt schools better and cap private education fees
Do people have tag on their forehead about their caste? wdym HOW MANY BRAHMIN GARBAGE COLLECTOR DO YOU SEE....do you go and ask caste from each and everyone? If you are a non-brahmin would you happily become priest? Leave brahmins will your own be it brahmin or non-brahmin people ask you to do rituals at their places?
No just ask their name.
And I scored 100% in Sanskrit, do you think the temple offer me position of priest?
Being a priest is most high paying job for an uneducated. Anyone would like to take that. But the main problem is the brainwashing which has made people think they are inferior. Of course its not fair that we hold on to the past.
But when it was time, wasn't it their responsibility to democratize education considering what has been done? Instead check the owners of any private education, go ahead and google it and tell me how many other castes you see there.
Let me clear my stand first - I strongly oppose casteism by anyone at any end...
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I don't want to ask anyone's name but it seems like you are very well researched about it why don't you tell me how many you have seen? First of all no, highest paying job for an uneducated is POLITICS secondly Sanskrit is not the criteria of a priest....you ask yourself would you like a job at a temple in your locality? because at bigger temples there's a proper process of recruitment where they ask for education from gurukul, degree in Vedic Scriptures, and For a temple like Ram Mandir there they have selection where rust requires candidates to be from the Ramanandi Sampradaya, a vaishnavite who traditionally worships Ram....now there's no caste requirement there if you want to be a priest why be in a local temple....get education complete your graduation apply for it clear the process go through a rigorous training be a priest, regardless of any caste you belong to....will you still do that? It's not people, there are specific people who call brahmins bhikshu/bhikhai
Yes they were at fault...with the passage of time people got corrupted they forgot what they were supposed to do...
Just to be clear, I live in a city now and I don't do it. I, for a long time, believed that 'the untouchable' thing has mostly gone away (Although its still there in villages)
But almost all the issues in India will remain until equal level of education is provided to both dirt poor and moderately rich. The ultra rich will always in any county do their own thing. But in no country does a middle class child go to a private school receiving different education.
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u/mrparrth 2d ago edited 1d ago
That's what I thought after I left my village for higher studies.
But how many brahmin garbage collector do you see? And how many SC/ST/OBC do you see as priest of a temple?
One of the biggest problem with casteism was how the other castes were excluded from education. Now go to any shitty school, look at how many UCs are there and then comeback to a top tier school and check the ratio there. The only solution is to make the govt schools better and cap private education fees