Sweetiepie: Here is an excerpt from my article in The Kathmandu Post.This one was a reply to my friend Sapkota's article about discrimination in America.Here it goes........ "....But there are some differences between people - the difference between white and coloured people, and the difference between rich and poor people. This exists everywhere, even in our own doorsteps. Discrimination is more dominant in our own society than anywhere else in the world. Sapkota sent me an e-mail yesterday saying that discrimination in foreign soil has a different political meaning. That might be true. Yet, discrimination is discrimination after all, isn't it?It just happens that Sapkota, Sharma, and myself are all Brahmins. We can only imagine what it means to be an untouchable in our own society. To be born in an untouchable family (without any fault of one's own) and live one's whole life as a fourth-class citizen in one's own soil must be pretty tough. It must be heartbreaking to be told that a glass of pure water gets contaminated with one's single touch. I consider this the height of discrimination. At least, this doesn't happen in America or in any other caste-less societies......." DP