ANATOMY OF DISCRIMINATION
− RKS
I have always wondered why the social status of so-called lower caste people of Nepal have been the way they have been. Brahmins/Chettries have been dominating and discriminating more than 30% of population of Nepal for millennia. Their well planned and well executed system of keeping lower castes away from Nepal’s cultural, religious, social, government, educational, national and international institution and opportunities has been working magnificently for thousands of years. If we were to compare the discriminatory practices in other cultures or countries with that of the Brahmins/Chettries of Nepal, then it would not be hard to realize that Brahmins/Chettries of Nepal have truly set the standards high in the world of discriminatory practice. They have done it so artfully and masterfully that the one who is being discriminated does not even realize that he or she is being discriminated. Brahmins/Chettries have perfected the science of discrimination and hence, in my mind, qualify for a membership in that exclusive club called axis-of-evil doers of this world. In fact, they should be awarded the chairmanship. So, with this impressive resume of Brahmins/Chettries in my mind, I wanted to explore the secret behind such a staggering success. Trust me folks, it is quiet an educational experience.
Science of Discrimination – According to Brahmins/Chettries
Beginners Level - Religion
Brahmins/Chettries know it very well that to discriminate a community first thing they have to do is to deprive or discriminate a community from practicing the religion they believe in PROPERLY. I want to stress the word properly here. By properly, I mean customization of a religion for a community or a caste. By customization of religion I mean changing or twisting the facts of the religion. A good example of this is the representation of the Hindu male god Brahma. Often times, Brahma is picturized as a god giving birth to the four castes of Hindu religion from different parts of his body. Cleverly, Brahmins are rising from Brahma’s mouth/head, Chettries from his hands, Vaishya are coming out of his thighs and then Shudra, the lowest caste, is coming out his feet. What is the message of such picturization? Since Brahmins are coming out of Lord Brahma’s mouth/head, they must be dear to him and the most intellectual ones - worthy of the highest position in the strata of caste system as head is the highest position in the human anatomy. Similarly, since Chettries are coming out of Brahmas’ hands signifying them to be fighters. So, they must be stronger kinds and deserving of the position of respectable warriors of Hindu religion. Vaishyas are coming out of Brahma’s thigh, slightly lower than Chettries yet respectable in the totem pool. So, let’s give them the status of business class. Someone’s got to do the business in the society. However, since Shudras are coming out of lord Brahma feet, they must be the lowest of all, not worthy of any respect, and god must not like them. Hence, they should remain under the society’s feet, a pariah. Wait, why not we just declare them untouchables because this was possibly Brahmas’ desire too. After all, they came out of the lord feet. How pitiful. The Brahmins/Chetteries have so successfully fabricated this picture in people’s mind that even today’s educated bunch really believe it.
A second such example is the idea of reincarnation. Hindu religion has this concept of the cycle of birth and rebirth. The only way to free oneself from this cycle is through your good karma and that your fortune in this life is determined by your karma in your previous life. Although, the intention of this belief system is to motivate people to be a good citizen and practice good karma in this lifetime, however, the clever Brahmins twisted this teaching and blamed the lower caste status to their karma in their previous birth. Such belief system is so deep rooted that people, regardless of what caste, really believe and practice it. Brahmins believe that they have the highest status in the society because of their good karma in their previous life and the lower castes believe that their lowest status must be the result of bad karma in their previous life. This belief system is now part of their DNA make-up. It is the fabric of life in Nepal. Both discriminator and discriminated have accepted their position in the society and practice such belief system however heinous it may be. Is that masterful or what? So, if you want to start the business of discrimination - twist the facts of a religion. It will work.
Intermediate Level - Education
Brahmins and Chettries also know that the best way to keep the industry of discrimination vibrant and expanding is by monopolizing the education sector of the society. Education is nothing but a powerful tool for self-realizing ones’ position in this world or self realizing oneself. When one realizes one’s position in this world then that person has only two choices, that is, either to accept or not to accept that position. Educated mind have the cognitive ability to make a right decision. So, by depriving education to the so called lower caste people of Nepal, Brahmins/Chettries have essentially arrested their cognitive development also. The so-called lower castes people of Nepal are simply unable to make right decision in their life. This resulted in their entrapment in a viscous cycle of continually making wrong decisions and expecting different results – a true definition of insanity. Thanks to the masterfully executed plan of Brahmins. Their policy of depriving education to the so-called lower caste people of Nepal have practically drove them insane for centuries. As a result, so-called lower caste people have accepted their position in the society. Take home message: if you want to severely disadvantage somebody for rest his or her life time or generation, just arrest their cognitive development. This way you prevent them from making right decision in life. And, how do you that? Simple, deprive them education. Trust me, it works. It is working for millennia. WOW! Is that a well thought out plan or what?
Brahmins/Chettries also know that in order to implement discriminatory practices effectively in a society the identity of the discriminated has to be recognizable. If they do not have a right system of recognition in place, they can mistakenly discriminate each other, among themselves. After all, the race of all these sub-groups of people within the Hindu system is the same – Indo-Aryan. So, they masterfully worked out a system of taking away the true identity of the so-called lower caste people. So, the first thing they did was prevent so-called lower caste from using their true identity, which actually is similar to Brahmins/Chettries, and forced them to use names indicating their profession, status in the society or their birth. This way they can recognize the new identity of the discriminated one. This has been going on for so long that it is in the second nature for a Brahmins/Chettries to recognize the discriminated one not by his true identity but by his birth or profession. This practice of identity recognition is also at the heart of preventing inter-caste of marriages which has the ultimate goal of deepening the differences among people.
The third level of discrimination has to do with the factor of extending respect through Nepali language. Nepali language is a highly developed language. It has different level of formal and informal ways of speech. So, when you talk to your elders, the language has basic rule which allows one to respect the elders through usage of certain words or phrases. It also has rules how to speak to someone younger or equal - which is very informal and can also come across disrespectful too. So, Brahmins/Chettries have developed this sophisticated rule of how to speak to a person of lower caste. First thing they decided to do is to reserve the language of disrespect exclusively for the people of lower caste regardless of what the age difference may be. In other words, if a Brahmins/Chettries is addressing a person of so-called lower caste, he must address that person disrespectfully even if Brahmin or Chettry is younger to the person of lower caste. On the same token, the lower caste person must address or talk to a Brahmins/Chettries with respect or use respectful language even if that Brahmin/Chettry is younger to the person of lower caste, at all times. Complicated, but trust me, a very effective method. Take home message: use language as a tool to implement discrimination.
Advanced Level – Divide and rule
If you think that the policy of divide and rule was first coined by British. Then think twice. It was first developed and perfected thousands of years ago by none other than Brahmins/Chettries. They knew that in order to implement all of the above mentioned rules of discrimination effectively, you must divide a community.
Brahmins knew that unification has strength and is anti-discrimination. They do not like unity, hence the sorry state of current Nepal also. So, what they strategized to further stratify the lower caste community. They created an internal sub-class within lower caste community. This sub-class basically practiced the similar rules and regulation of the four castes of the Hindu religion. That is, just like Brahmins/Chettries being the highest of all, certain sub-caste within lower caste acquired the higher status then the others and practiced untouchability within themselves. This way within the lower caste community there are certain castes who believe they are superior to the others. They behave and act the same way as Brahmins/Chettries would behave or act toward a lower caste person. This kind of practice guaranteed the division of the lower caste community and hence guaranteed the hegemony of Brahmins/Chettries over the lower caste for thousands of years to come. How clever?
Wait, this is not where it ends when it comes to divide and rule policy of Brahmins/Chettries. The best of the best weapons they used to maintain their supremacy is infiltration. Yes, infiltration. How do you do this? Simply put, just take few slightly well to-do members of lower castes community under your wings and give them the impression that they are like one of them. Just an impression only. When you give such an impression to a lifelong discriminated one, it leaves an indelible mark on the psyche of that person. All of a sudden that person starts to consider himself/herself higher caste similar to Brahmins/Chetteries and completely forgets his past and community. In this process of false pretense, that person simply acquires a status of mole for the higher caste. This mole is the most important and dangerous weapon for discriminators because they can do the most effective damage to their own community than the discriminators themselves. Be aware that these moles through their personality are able to mesmerize their own community and maintain a certain sway over them. Such traits of these people have continued to play a vital role in maintaining the status quo. They are sometime referred to as elites. These people have helped maintain the machinery of discrimination working for Brahmins/Chettries and have caused serious damage to the struggles of the so called dalits for a long time.
Such is the art and cleverness of Brahmin/Chettries. This is a short version the science of anatomy behind discrimination according to Brahmins/Chettries.
[Posted at nepaldalitinfo@yahoogroups.com on Tuesday 6 May 2008]
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I AM PISSED OFF AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE
- RKS
Yes, I am pissed off, and I am not going to take it anymore. You [suckers]! I want to fight you. My forefathers from centuries have given up their lives, shed their blood, fought your wars, contributed to your economy, worked in your lands for meager food and made you rich. You, your children and pedigrees have flourished and thrived on my and my forefathers’ sweat and blood.
You have deprived us to practice my own religion freely. You have poured hot boiling oil in ears of my forefathers if they happen to hear the sacred verses of my own religion. You forbid us to enter the very temple that my forefathers helped built. You have twisted facts of my own religion to discriminate us.
You don’t want us to touch you because it will defile your body. You have made us walk a different path in my own villages so that my shadow does not touch your body. You prevent us from entering your house yet the very houses you live in were and are built my own hands. You do not want to sit or eat with us yet the very food you cook and the pot you cook your food and eat are produced by my hands and my labor. You don’t want to collect our milk for processing/pasteuri zation because the cows belong to us. You [monostrous] soul, I am going to see you in the battlefield and crush your ego.
You make us wash the dishes that we used to eat the food that we bought from your restaurants. If we refused to wash our dishes in your restaurants, you come in masses to beat us or kill us. Oh, yes, I am angry. I am ready to fight you, Now!
You have taken away our identity. You have forced us to put a label on our name so that you can recognize us and prevent us from progressing in the society.
You have forced us to live in the outskirts of a neighborhood. You redirect drinking waters of our villages to your villages and we have to walk miles to get drinking water for our families. We accepted our position in the society to appease you. But we are not going to take this any more.
You have deprived my fore-fathers from education and you are continuing to do so. When my forefathers did make it to schools you did not let them enter the school premise or kept them separated from the other students. You have developed a very well planned system how to keep us away from education in the modern era also. You don’t let our young students rent your houses because it will defile your houses. We have to lie about our identity to find housing for our young students. When you find out about our background you beat or kill our young students and throw them out of your houses in the streets. If we do happen to succeed you plot to eliminate or kill us.
You have also developed a well oiled system to keep us deprived from national and international opportunities. You all are corrupt and have created a corrupt government to rape my country for its natural resources, depriving us from such resources only to benefit you. You have raped our women and children. You rapist beings, I want to fight a war with you. If I die doing this, I will consider myself lucky and find my way to the heavens.
OH, YES I AM VERY ANGRY!
[Posted at nepaldalitinfo@yahoogroups.com on Sunday 20 April May 2008]
