Intercaste marriage

marriage - a newly weds
India
September 6, 2009 8:15pm CST
When we were small children, Intercaste marriage was a taboo. No elder person in the family of whatever caste they are, allow this and they don't allow their wards to enter in the house if they indulge in such a thing and they don't even talk to them and like to see face to face and behave as if their wards have committed a big sin. Now Intercaste marriages are so common and the elders themselves are approving this and performing the marriages also. What is your opinion about this? Do you support Intercaste marriage?
3 responses
@maezee (41985)
• United States
7 Sep 09
We don't have an official caste system in the United States (where I live), but we have a lot of class division (poor, middle class, upper class) - and sometimes it can cause tension between the families of the couples if they aren't from the same status or class; but not always. Times are constantly changing. I think that any two people who are in love should have the right to get married; and their families can just "get down or lay down", as they say. My family is middle-class and if I fell in love with someone who was from an upper-class family, I really wouldln't care what my family or his family thought of it; because their opinions really just don't MATTER. Love is love. So, to sum things up, I think inter-caste dating and marraige is 110% acceptable. I actually enjoy seeing opposites attracting to one another; it makes me feel better about the world I live in! I think it's great that we're all becoming more and more tolerant of these things that used to be taboo; it shows that we're making gradual progress.
• India
8 Sep 09
Yes. i think, when we can't cure it, we have to endure it
@Buchi_bulla (8298)
• India
7 Sep 09
A happy inter-caste marriage is certainly better than an unhappy same caste marriage. Only thing is we have to adjust for the change of customs and habits. Before true love, these adjustments are nothing.
• India
7 Jun 10
I too totally agree that a happy intercaste marriage worth 100 same caste unhappy marriages. It is better to agree for the intercaste marriage rather than arguing for the same caste marriage and later on ending in differences of opinion, break ups and finally heading towards divorce
@killersss (638)
• India
7 Sep 09
i too think that a happy inter-cast marriage is much much much better than a unhappy same cast marriage, i think it depends on the thinking of the person. i am completely in favor of the inter-cast marriage as long as they are happy.