The Caste System in India

This Caste System in India is a three-thousand-year-old Hindu system that is still affecting Indians to this day. This documentary Mateus Berutto Figueiredo shows how Indians are still being affected by this form of stratification.

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What is the caste system?: (0:00)
Jobs and social mobility: (4:20)
Diet: (7:33)
Turbans and hairstyle: (9:16)
Dalits/Untouchables/Harijans: (9:46)
Inter-caste relations and discrimination: (13:29)
Reservation: (19:08)
Inter-caste marriage: (24:24)
Open defecation: (27:23)
Conclusion: (31:57)
Credits: (32:30)

[doubleemcastillano]

Imagine being a Brahman and discriminating against Untouchables only to relocate to America and get treated like an Untouchable.

[crys]

It amazes me how, as a species, humans all over the world manage to find ways to discriminate against each other. I really don't understand.

[kkxmas]

imagine being one of the untouchables and feeling that you're "impure"... the effect on mental health man

[ElectronicYouth]

The cast system is evil and barbaric. How could you not imagine yourself being born as a low cast and how awful it would feel to be treated like that?

[GrannyNerd]

In the 1980s, a university student from India told me that “India no longer has the caste system, just like the United States no longer had racism.” In other words, the caste system is still practiced, although not officially.

[RenaAbraham]

The hypocrisy of the guy in the white shirt is astounding . He claims the caste system has disappeared but earlier on he admitted to teaching his children that a certain group of people was less that because of their caste. Make it make some sense please, sir.

[gedoug]

The Brits did not establish the caste system, they used it. Hinduism created the caste system.

[ctwpoco-oywu]

One of the greatest founders, modern India, Ambedkar was a Dalit.
He converted to Buddhism.

[antoinemozart]

As long as India will keep the caste system, it will remain a medieval country.

[agnel]

Important thing to remember is this interview centers around the capital Delhi, literally the most well mixed city, in other more rural parts of india, it is literally the middle ages.

[vv-lxse]

Privilege is when you think something is not a problem because it's not a problem to you personally. I am a Dalit and live in a metropolitan. I face casteists often, most of whom are from the "younger generation", and so am I.

[Deandre-jh]

Never believe an Indian who says caste doesn't matter in modern India. Caste matter. The first thing an Indian wants to know when meeting someone new is what caste they belong to.

[astrochild]

As a South African this seems exactly like Apartheid

[peter]

Guess I'm a Shudra, worker, but I have my own mind and thus Brahmin, I have been in the military so I'm also Kshatriyas, I have sold items both as a retailer and made music and art so I am Vaishyas, I have both picked up trash and worked on plumbing systems so thus I'm also Dalit, I am human, not a label.

[bicqtran]

The yoke of Slavery is not only physical, but also economical, and/or mental.

[Pixel]

One Indian dude told me the untouchables are not allowed to wear shoes in the other caste areas, imagine being born like that the toll on the mental is evil.

[alexvtan]

This caste system is "racism" in another form!

[goldenageofrap]

I went to high school with many Indian migrants back in the 90's. You could clearly see who was higher up in the caste system just by their personality. The ones higher up were outspoken almost to the point of arrogance. On the other hand the ones lower on the system were very quiet shy and withdrawn. I didn't realize why until much later when one of the higher caste members on my tennis team broke it down to me. This antiquated form of rule needs to stop especially in this day in age

[peterq]

You can REMOVE the system from the System but NOT from the MINDS

[CharlieAndHerWorld]

Crazy how something like this can exist in the 21st century