1) Have you ever been to India? If not SHUT UP about the real caste situation. You have NO CLUE whatsoever. Inter-caste marriages are a lot more common in India than inter racial marriages are in the USA. Not many see it as marrying down or up anymore simply because the opportunties presented to each castes are more or less the same, and even in reverse as tha Mandal 2 reforms come in to effect.
2) About Indians considering themselves smarter and more cultured: Well, I think this kind of superiority complex exists in all cultures. Lets take the Chinese, the Jews, the Europeans, the Arabs and for God's sake, even the Mexicans. All of them boast of a long cultural history. Whats wrong in loving your culture? Indians and Chinese think of themselves as particularly special because we are 2 longest continuous cultures in the world, there is no denying this, but in my opinion they delve too long in the past instead of working to ameliorate their present and securing the future. The past is always glorious when the present sucks, everyone needs something to be proud of. In the pre-liberalization days of no money and no prosperity, ou culture was all we had to feel proud of, this was incorporated in our text books, albeit subtly, so you see Indians as being a proud people. As for being smarter, I really have had no such experience. If you have had such an experience, I think its quite justified given how stupid and ignorant you appear in your posting. You must have the IQ of a starfish really!
3) About the huge Muslim population in India proving to be a problem. Well, we have problems with our Muslim population b ut a vast majority of our Muslims are Indian Muslims and not Muslim Indians. There is a difference. They are Indian first and India's comparatively better quality of education ensures that they dont go the Arab Muslim way. But having said that, the Islamic population in India is among the least literate communities in India and this is where the problem stems from. A lot of Muslims live in ghettoes within the cities and this does have the ability to turn into a breeding ground for radicals. But the population being a majority Hindu population, such Muslims are always kept in check. Whenever they materialise, their first display of angst is against Hindus, and likeyou saw in Gujarat, Hindus don't take it lying down anymore. You kill our people, we'll butcher 10 times more of yours. I don't think India's radical Muslim population will ever get access to nuclear weapons. There are Muslims in the nuclear program no doubt, but all scientists' (Hindu/Christian/Muslim) antecedents are checked before being allowed into such critical operations.
If you had bothered to read the entire dialogue you would have seen that I HAD been to India and HAD worked with Indians for five years.
However, since you start your diatribe with SHUT UP, we know where your logic lies: directly with your emotions, not your brains. Therefore, my statements stand. YOURS fall with the rest of your meaningless, worthless, brainless, emotional diatribe.
Don't take this as an attack on YOU personally; it's not. It's an attack on your thinking and your ideas. You are, without doubt, a nice person when your brain is working.
I didn't even bother to read the rest of the garbage...since the first statement starts out with an insult, based on your NOT reading the entire dialogue of my comments.
Nothing personal, again, but try doing some reading before you open mouth and insert foot.
P.S. The very fact that STILL "marrying up or down" through such a racist, sexist system as caste is appalling in this day and age....really appalling. It should have been dumped LONG ago.
Our country got rid of legal slavery in 1861, less than 100 years of our being a nation. At least we got rid of the laws....and worked on the rest. At least we tried before we were TOO old.