Re:Wow, you know nothing about India, do you? (Score 1)

No, you clearly don't understand. It's not simply a matter of choice. The castes are listed so that you don't marry below your station. If, for example, a Kashmiri Pandit married a dalit from the south of India there would likely be uproar in the family - "Not only are they uneducated, they're dark skinned!", or "Someone from a village!?". Calling it OK because it's choice is like saying it's OK for a shop to choose not to serve blacks. Just because it's a chocie doesn't mean it's not discrimination. And for record, if you decide that you are only going to marry blondes then you are discriminating against brunettes. OK, so it's trivial and unimportant, but if you take that discrimination into wider society ( as happens with caste-based discrimination ) then it becomes an issue.