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jenny weight, RMIT » love and religion

Caste system . You’re not better than me.

The [constructed] relationship between love (or human connection) and religion is something I really want to explore in the script I’m currently writing.

I found Farah’s story while rummaging through Jenny’s blog in the Transient Spaces category. It’s quite sad that people can’t be together for reasons such as these, and I find it hard to understand in many ways. As much as I can intellectually understand the reasoning behind such relationship incompatibility I don’t really understand since I can’t relate to it personally. Sure I have prejudices regarding people in certain professions and often find amusement in stereotypes, but I really don’t see a person to be better or worse than me or anyone else until I get to know them. The class system is an abused system – something I want to look into and write about in a following post – and it is useless to me when determining the quality of a human being. I have a feeling that all this rubbish leads back to some sort of bogus interpretation and/or unquestioning acceptance of something written in scripture, or something said by a person of decent “authority.”

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Hinduism (which I briefly scanned through) presented Hinduism as something more open-minded than Farah’s story illustrates, and my strongly Hindu friends are also quite open-minded. And moreover, any scripture that I have read doesn’t mention such discrimination. However, I have known for a long time, from stories that my parents and family have told me (and Tamil films ), that such ridiculous rules and ideas of caste and marriage between different religions exist in abundance. It makes me angry. If two people love each other and have similar values, the rest is superfluous. If anyone else thinks differently, please say so – I’d like to hear it.