In Sima Qian's "Chen Shi ShiJia", there is a famous slogan during the Dazexiang uprising: "The prince will have a kind of Hu!" ”
What do you mean?
Does this mean: Are those princes all chosen sons? Is it natural to be born and become an aristocrat directly?!
You don't have to say, if Chen Sheng and Wu Guang can travel through time and space to India to visit the people's livelihood, it is estimated that they should squat on the side of the road and doubt life, because in that magical country filled with curry aroma, social status and class are really born, reincarnation is a technical job there.
Ganges water is not what you want to drink, no two brushes can not rush to the three brothers to reincarnate, even if you have made all the preparations, it is difficult to predict whether it is a blessing or a curse, after all, the upward throwing channel is very crowded, the downward throwing channel is purgatory, the so-called heaven has a bad way to go, hell has no door to enter.
【I】
The caste system is a social system based on the theory of descent, in addition to India, it is also common in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other countries, but India has learned this system more deeply, understood more thoroughly, and implemented more consciously.
In fact, the masses in Europe and the United States were also deeply affected by it for a time, and they were basically "lame" by the blue-blooded nobles.
Not only abroad, But also China once had a similar system, such as the four-class system of the Yuan Dynasty and the eight flags system of Manchuria in the Qing Dynasty.
The purpose is to divide people into three, six, nine, etc., so as to facilitate the administration of rule.
The earliest ancient India was divided into two major ethnic groups, one was the Aryan people, the other was the Dravidian people, aryans were the Caucasian people who only moved into India later, mainly living in North India, they were the founders of the North Indian civilization from 600 BC to the present, and they were also the founders of Buddhism and Brahmanism; the Dravidians were the indigenous people of India, short and dark-skinned, mainly distributed in South India. The Hapala civilization in India and the Basin from 2600 BC to 1500 BC is generally believed to have been created by them.
With the large-scale invasion of the Aryan nation, the peaceful days of the well water not violating the river water were completely over, and the Dravidians were bullied and enslaved, and the life was miserable.
It was then that the racial system was deeply embedded in the annals of Indian history, and its far-reaching influence continues to this day.
Seeing this, do you think that this routine has a familiar taste, anyway, xiaobian somehow thought of the Indians in the 16th century when he saw this history.
In India, the caste system divides people into four classes, from high to low: Brahmins (lying winners, such as priests and scholars), Chatilly (princes and generals, such as warriors, kings), Vedas (small rich and an-type players, such as craftsmen, merchants, landlords), Shudras (toiling runners, such as commoners, peasants, servants), do you think that the Shudra caste at the bottom of the food chain is the most miserable class?
No, you're wrong, you're really wrong.
There is another social class outside the primitive Hindu caste system, which is beyond the "three realms", does not exist in the food chain, is at the bottom of the social pyramid structure, two kilometers to the right, is not eligible to be divided into four major castes of Dalits, they are not even poor, they are called untouchables by high castes.
At present, incomplete statistics show that there are about 170 million so-called Dalit "Dalits" in India.
In the eyes of the high castes, they are "untouchables", and if a high caste Indian such as a Brahmin or Chatri goes out to play in the streets and is confronted by a low-level Dalit, then the low-caste proletariat must quickly retreat and immediately disappear in front of the high-castes, so as not to "defile" the noble souls of the high-castes (there is a taste of Versailles literature).
You don't often see this strange scene on the streets of India, people with the surname Dalí are not cleaners but cleaners, who have made outstanding contributions to the sanitation of the neighborhood, and they sweep the roads they walk with brooms as they walk, not because they are concerned about environmental protection, but because they are considered by several other races to be the most despicable caste, and even when they touch their shadows, they feel dirty and dirty.
In addition to their shadows, even the footprints left on the road will be disliked by people of other castes.
As far as the editor's cognitive scope is concerned, in addition to the wizards who taught at Hogwarts, represented by Harry Potter, Dalit went out with his own broom.
In the bustling crowd of people on the street, when Dalit swept away his footprints with a broom, it was not only footprints, but also dignity... Thinking about it, it feels particularly bitter, and the Buddhist saying has clouds: all beings are suffering, and all beings are equal.
Anyway, the high castes are not bitter, we don't know if we dare to ask, but the Buddhist phrase of equality of all living beings sounds like a joke in a country like India.
Please allow for five seconds of silence...
【II】
Friends who like to watch movies must know that the wonderful house of the Indian gods - Bollywood Pictures (Bollywood), everyone generally recognizes the saying that once Bollywood is out, it will be a boutique.
The success of Indian cinema is inextricably linked to India's unique culture.
Bollywood especially understands what problems there are in their own country, so the shooting subject often turns on the self-black mode, good at self-deprecation, so it can always make some seemingly comedy films that are actually tragic and thought-provoking, in order to sneer at the various social shortcomings and "stubborn diseases" that exist in their own country.
For example, the "Three Fools Bollywood", "Hiccup Teacher", "Little Lolita's Monkey God Uncle", "Even Drop God", "Wrestling Bar, Daddy", "Toilet Hero", etc., all of which are known to everyone, take out the caste problems, education problems, religious problems, and health problems in Indian society and "whip" them all, and satirize it.
In movies, bad guys always like to say the line "Killing you is as easy as crushing an ant", in India, it is no longer a line, it really happens in life.
The Indian film "Article 15", released in 2019, tells the story of a police officer who has just entered the police station and rebels against the Indian caste system, exposing the backwardness and evil of the caste system and the dark side of society where police and bandits collude with each other.
Three of the village's tricky girls have mysteriously disappeared, two of whom have been confirmed dead.
This film mainly looks for the third missing girl as a clue, and shows the most cruel side to the audience through what the sheriff has seen and heard in the process of handling the case.
The film is based on a true incident in 2014 in a vicious rape and murder case in a village called Ushati in Uttar Pradesh, India.
The victims were a pair of little sisters who were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and the bodies of the two sisters were found hanging from a mango tree by the villagers, and the two were covered in wounds and their clothes were torn.
The father of the sisters immediately called the police, in the process of handling the case, after the police learned that the victim's family was a low caste, they began to spit out ivory in the dog's mouth, and used ugly words to stimulate and insult the victim's family, so that the moviegoers felt that the poor people's lives were as cheap as ants, and they had to bear the humiliation of the law enforcement department while bearing the pain of losing their daughters.
Some of the details in the film vaguely show the central idea that Hinduism wants to express, or a concept that wants to convey - "pure (high) pure (noble)", and they have naturally formed this kind of pure caste hierarchy, the higher the level, the closer to the gods, the old woman is the inherent mode of thinking that is entitled to be proud.
In their eyes, the lower castes were all dust, and the untouchables were all garbage; this no longer equated with a habit of life, it seemed to have become a spiritual belief.
That's what's scary. Children of high-caste families have been instilled from a young age by their parents whose thoughts have been deeply rooted, I am born noble, those low-caste children do not deserve to play with me, I can not go near them, they are dirty, they are despicable; and the children of low-caste families will also be educated by their parents, to be clear about their identity, not to have any transgression, to do what an ant should do in peace, you can't go near those high-caste children, they are pure, they are noble.
【III】
Seeing this, some people may ask, is the class really solidified?
Is the ascending channel basically blocked?
In fact, it is not necessarily necessary, the toiling masses in India have not thought about it, in India you really want to cross the class, and you are a woman... Simply, speak the way you speak, get married!
Find a high caste man to marry!
Marriage is the second reincarnation of a woman The phrase is vividly reflected in India, a low-caste woman married to a high-caste man, this is called smooth marriage, there is nothing wrong with it; but this marriage is more like a red fruit transaction, the high-ranking woman's family must pay a large amount of "class transition fee" to the high-caste husband's family, and the price of this jump fee you think about according to the demolition fee.
Want to change the class? How could it make you empty gloves for a white wolf.
Oh no, it's a high-caste third brother, it will be solved by getting married, and you have to show the sincerity of real money and silver to get the chance to step into the threshold of people's high-caste families.
You see, the small abacus of the rich and noble is so slippery, even marriage is a business with a clear price.
What the? You are a man and would like to ask if there is a chance to eat soft rice hard?
Sorry, you think too much, this bowl of rice can not eat, "rice is too hard" I am afraid that your stomach can not stand.
Unless there is a high-caste woman who loves you to the bone and is willing to accept the embarrassing situation of both of you, including your children, being reduced to pariah for generations to come after marrying you, or you will die this unreliable idea, in India, which is called "reverse marriage", even if the woman is willing, her parents will break her legs to raise her for a lifetime, and will never allow her to find a low caste to insult the family; of course, it is more likely to discount your legs.
Don't be disappointed, there is still a way to try, that is, to participate in the election, to upgrade all the way to fight monsters, to become a parliamentarian who fights for the rights of the broad masses of the low-caste people.
India is a country that has done a particularly good job on the surface, it is all scene people, and discrimination behind the scenes is discriminatory, and the set of freedom, democracy, and equality on the table cannot be lost.
If you are capable, you can continue to run up and defeat all kinds of cattle and snake gods, such as Prime Minister Modi who came out of the merchant family.
Of course, this kind of person can not pick one out of thousands of miles, education, IQ, emotional intelligence must be online, and he is strictly speaking a middle-class family out of the child, not a low caste, as a big god to worship it can be, ordinary low-caste family children want to go his way, basically no drama, operability is too low.
Ironically, Dalits don't have any roles in the film called Article 15.
Instead, the protagonist is a Brahmin.
The film shows the weak, pitiful, helplessness of the Dalits, desperate for a savior (O God!). Save me! And the ultimate savior walked eighteen turns and came back, and it was the Brahmins who looked down on them and regarded them as dung (oh, er, untouchables, kneel!). ), is it true that in addition to the class in India, even the movies are going to start to engage in "inner volume", the child is afraid...
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