Chapter Six: Eurasia Social Hierarchies

This chapter talked about the caste system in India. I just read a book called Joothan, which was an autobiography of a boy in India, and because of his ranking he had no way of moving up. He was shunned at birth. India’s social organization has designed this caste system to better regulate and have control of its country. It was so sad reading this book and further learning about the sudras and the untouchable. They were considered lower then low. India’s hierarchically depended what social group one belong to. It differs then today in the concept that if you are born into money it may make things easier but the same way one can posse’s money they can lose it. On the other hand if someone is born with no or little money they have the opportunity to either stay n that economical ranking or move up. Karma is not just an Indian idea but practiced worldwide. I’m a huge believer in Karma. I know as time passed, women were given less value but to have slave women raped and the men killed would probably make the women choose death then to be traumatized by being forced to have sex. Women were not even referred to by their name but rather their title such as wife or a mother. Women had very little worth when it came to Eurasia social hierarchies. “Greek thinkers, especially Aristotle, provided a set of ideas that justified women’s exclusions from public life and their general subordination to men (Strayer, page 174).” I was shocked how he went on his idea that women were passive went it came to providing “receptacle for the vital male contribution.” I couldn’t believe how he belittled women! It’s obvious that birth as well as reproduction of our species will not help without a woman.