daddyz-here - reading your post reminds me of a friend i have!! She's against blacks marrying whites!! She herself is black!! Don't take this in a bad way, we're both not racists or anything!! The whole issue with her is because of slavery. I mean when she says it to me she's like three generations before me my great grandmother was a slave!! I mean you might think that's a lot of time but really it's not!! you tell your kids about it and your kids tell their kids about it!! Are we as humans in the society that we live in now ready to just look or skip over the fact that slavery even existed?? This is kind of off topic, but in a way if you look at the intercast marriage thing: are we ready to just throw away the differences of culture and our background and where we came from just down the drain and forget everything and unite?? Like are we ready to not look at the differences that make us different? This might sound weird but say an American marries a British. There will always be the fact that one is a British and the other an American!! Kind of in a way isn't this the same thing with intercaste marriage?? And since that fact will always be present, wouldn't be hard to just try and ignore it?? I mean aren't we just making life more difficult for ourselves?? and i am not saying making life difficult is bad kind of thing either! :) And also aren't these differences that make us one in different ways?? PS: I am not saying anything here, these are just questions to think about!! :)