I respect to all our culture and traditions, but for me caste system is nowdays not realistic, it is not part of the social time we are living now, all the nations have an evolution in their historical social life, for me it is just THE NEPALI COMMUNITY, not caste and not differences between any nepali citizen, I live outside Nepal and all my friends from different countries have never asked me if I am Bhaun, Tibetan, Newar or Chhetri etc., Because this just happens in our society. I respect a lot to the elder people thinking, but even they are thinking different now, and it is not only the thought of the people that is living abroad, my family back home is thinking the same, we are Nepalese for the rest of the world and we are so complicated ourselves, it seems that there are many interest for some people to keep our society separated and not together, just expressing what I think about this and I love to my Nepali community, and I am not the only one as someone called me in a different thread "wonderful exception" because of my interracial marriage, I love to my wife from Mexico and now she has a Nepali heart. There are many nepalese married with other race, then caste system is just part of our history..for me, each one talks with the crystal that looks at the things.