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Taking up again the tradition of the Friesian School, this is a non-peer-reviewed electronic journal

non-peer reviewed journal. yeah right! Read some peer reviewed (or at least more mainstream) stuff here:
http://wcar.alrc.net/mainfile2.php/For+the+negative/14/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/living/caste.shtml

Today, caste barriers have largely broken down in the large cities. "Untouchability" has been abolished by law.
However, loyalty to a caste is much harder to eliminate and it still provides a sense of community and belonging, particularly in country areas.

Plus, India has an extensive system of affirmative actions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India

That's been in place for a while now, which is why they've had a disadvantaged for a president:

And caste system exists among non-Hindus as well in India

(Muslims:
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/ambedkar_partition/410.html

  Christians:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/115071/Christian-caste
http://www.webindia123.com/goa/people/caste.htm

) so religion has little to do with it (although it does have a peripheral influence)

In other words, pretty much the same as post desegregation USA deep south.

For a Malayalee (person from Kerala, India - who speaks Malayalam) breakfast will be usually one of the following -
Dosa or Idly with chutney
Puttu with Kadala
Kappa (tapioca) vevichatu (boiled) - mashed with coconut, ginger etc. and fish curry
Idiyappam and egg curry

In the 90s multinationals introduced breakfast cereals in India. In their advertisements they were arrogant to depict traditional Indian cooking as unhealthy. Anyways, cereals never became popular - a box was costing more than Rs.100 - too costly for most Indians except for the rich who anyways had servants to cook food.

• the Spanish Inquisition
• the Crusades
  Wiki article
  But, it's alright, because those weren't "real" chrisitans. Ref
• the burning times - The extermination of Witches and other heretics
  50 - 100,000 burned to death or hung Ref

At least two persons have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a Hindu woman and setting her house on fire in Orissa after she refused to change her religion

International general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad Pravin Togadia and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi received a combined death threat Tuesday ...
The death threat claiming to be from the "Christian community"

Doesn't section 805 also cause problems like this
Basiclly some humanitairan groups are unsure how to procede with helping people in "terrorist" controlled areas in the wake of the tsunami.

There are now fruit flies that turn gay depending on the temperature. http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,51 14041%255E13762,00.html There are mice that get addicted at the same rate humans do. http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id =45450&cat=World Our feelings can be affected by chemicals in ways similar to country voles. http://www.economist.com/printedition/PrinterFrien dly.cfm?Story_ID=2424049

As a matter of science, people may not have as much control over their psyche classically believed. But this research isn't to explain away personal responsibility as much as it understand why we are the way we are. Perhaps people used to look down at the mentally ill for not taking responsibility for their actions, but we eventually created drugs to treat some mental illnesses. Society may later choose to decide how it will accomodate scientific knowledge. However, judgmental cries have no place against science seeking to discover how we tick.

So that's why all those eMule users keep banging on my ports for days. The network must be claiming that the previous owner of my IP address had the last remaining piece of Natalie Portman's Bathtub of Hot Grits.