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by MulaiAzhagi Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:39 am

If I had remained in India, I would probably have lived most of my life within a five-mile radius of where I was born. I would undoubtedly have married a woman of my identical religious, socioeconomic, and cultural background. I would almost certainly have become a medical doctor, an engineer, or a software programmer. I would have socialized within my ethnic community and had cordial relations but few friends outside this group. I would have had a whole set of opinions that could be predicted; indeed, they would not have been very different from what my father believed, or his father before him. In sum, my destiny would, to a large degree, have been given to me.

Let me illustrate with the example of my sister in India who got married several years ago. My parents began the process of planning my sister's wedding by conducting a comprehensive survey of all the eligible families in our neighborhood. First, they examined primary criteria, such as religion, socioeconomic position, and educational background. Then my parents investigated subtler issues: the social reputation of the family, the character of the boy in question, rumors of a lunatic uncle, and so on. Finally, my parents were down to a dozen or so eligible families, and they were invited to our home for dinner with suspicious regularity. My sister was, in the words of Milton Friedman, "free to choose." My sister knew about, and accepted, the arrangement: She is now happily married with two children. I am not quarreling with the outcome, but clearly, my sister's destiny was, to a considerable extent, choreographed by my parents.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2006/02/whats-great-about-america

===> The crackpot Dinesh D'Souza was raised as a Goan Catholic. He has described in his essay how a typical marriage is conducted among Goan Catholics. It is not really different from what Hindu families do.

Then why do you blast Hindus here for marrying within their caste especially the boy or girl selected by their parents?

by Jeremiah Mburuburu Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:17 am

mulai azhagi,

could you tell me where i've blasted hindus for marrying within their caste?

secondly, why would dinesh d'souza's family's or the goan catholics' matrimonial customs prevent me from criticizing the caste system of the hindus?

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