Inter Caste Marriage

In India, when a sperm and an ova meet the first thing they decide is the caste and the religion. Why is it so? Is inter-caste justifiable? Aren't we too outdated that we are still stuck in such issues?

In the era of Kings and Palaces the jobs of the people were distinctly classified and people were to follow those jobs generations after generations. It was a belief that a carpenter's son could not learn anything else but carpentry. The belief was there because it was felt that a carpenters son got exposed to carpentry most of the time and so was his learning better in that field. The same was with other professions. Later this classification of profession transformed to castes and people with some luxurious professions started hating the other profession people. This is how the society got divided into two halves. It was also accepted by the people then because people had different habits. People from one profession had a unique lifestyle and food habit, which was completely different from others. It was believed that when a girl from one different professional background would step into a household that follows another profession, she would face troubles to accept the culture and hence their could have been conflict of opinions. So to avoid such conflicts the concept of inter caste marriage prevailed and was propagated.

Today in this era a guy, whose forefathers were warriors; who has done his schooling in Assam, graduation in Delhi, masters in Ahmedabad and works in Bhubneswar marries a girl who basically hails from Karnataka, whose forefathers were priests; who has done her schooling in Tamil Nadu, graduation and masters in Delhi and works in Bhubneswar. This kind of scenario isn't very unique in this era. There isn't any propagation of profession. People are unique, they are brought up in a cosmopolitan culture and they are exposed to all kind of profession and life styles. There is nothing called marriage in a caste. People today don't match castes, rather they search for understanding in their perfect companion.