Originally Posted by
ThouArt
Namaste:
While reading the morning news I saw a post regarding mass conversion of "Dalit" or "untouchables" in India to Christianity and Bhuddism.
In the 21st century can somebody please explain what "untouchable" means? Is this a term used for those that are contagious with untreatable virulent disease? Or poisonous like a toad? Or burning like fire? (I know that it does not); What does "untouchable" mean in India today?
Is this a term foisted on a group of people purely from a generational or even worse, a geographic reason? Does someone ever not become untouchable?
And what difference does being Christian or Bhuddist mean to the "untouchable"?
As an American I have grown up into a country dealing with bigotry and racism and have never understood why it even exists.
I am not judging the people of India but merely trying to understand this most fundamental of human conditions. Thank you all in advance for your opinion and responses
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