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Re: Attn:- Kynaston - re White Cast

by Silver (guest)

4/14/2005, 11:03 AM

Chisell is right, and the word 'caste' doesn't deal specifically with race.
Cast means only, a cast in a play.
Caste is the word used to decribe the different levels of people within the Hindu religion. Caste even comes from a Brahman, or early Hindu term. This idea of caste wasn't introduced to the Brittans until their knowledge of the levels within Hinduism...
now if i had my essay which i accidently deleted... i could tell you where the word caste came from, lol.

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- Chrisell +3

4/15/2005, 3:35 AM

Check the link I provided - caste is from the Portuguese, who applied it to the class system they encountered in their first contacts with the Indians.

:-)

♦ Chrisell ♦

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

- Silver (guest) +2

4/15/2005, 8:49 PM

you forgot the link

Oh man, the word I was thinking of is varna
Varna is the Indian word,
caste is a European term, as chrisell said
but i wanna see that link, where did they get the word caste from
might be helpful in our demasking of whitecast

- Chrisell +1

4/16/2005, 7:13 AM

Lol - it was in the post before the one you replied to. But nevermind, here it is again:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=caste

:-)

♦ Chrisell ♦

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

- Silver (guest)

4/17/2005, 11:34 AM

doh! lol thx!!

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