Topic started by Mani (@ spider-wo071.proxy.aol.com) on Sun Nov 5 14:33:28 .
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I have noticed a majority of Trinidad Indians, seem to have the South Indian Tamil/Kerala look, are they mainly of Thamizh origin?

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• From: sanjeev (@ wc09.wlfdle.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Sat May 22 09:40:14 EDT 2004
  
  hey guys thanx alot 4 all this insight uve been givin me
  the one more thing i want to elanr about is th caste system and like what it ahs to do with surnames of ppl
  
  
• From: Nedunchezhiyan (@ cache-mtc-ae09.proxy.aol.com) on: Sat May 22 22:40:01 EDT 2004
  
  //TN doesn't have the power to help these people with educating their mother //
  Correction: TN doesn't have enough power nor the power to help it's migrated Thamizhans or other Thamizhans world-wide to learn their mother tonghue 'Thamizh'.
  
  
• From: Thamizhan (@ cache-mtc-ae09.proxy.aol.com) on: Mon May 24 12:00:49 EDT 2004
  
  Sanjeev,
  
  Surnames in the West Indies aren't valid like Indian surnames. As far as caste, pundits (Maharaj), come into play when it comes to caste in the Caribbean. Many people adopted surnames like Singh, Persaud, Narine, etc. A lot of these people with these adopted surnames have South Indian background, while those names are from the North.
  
  
• From: Thamizhan (@ cache-rr03.proxy.aol.com) on: Mon May 31 21:49:19 EDT 2004
  
  Heres an interesting article:
  
  http://www.guyana.org/features/madrasis_guyana.html
  
  
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• From: TN (@ 207.188.73.226) on: Mon Jun 21 11:04:25 EDT 2004
  
  To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
  Life’s good not come from others’ gift, nor ill
  Man’s pains and pain’s relief are from within.
  Thus we have seen in visions of the wise.
  -Purananuru, circa 500BC
  
  
• From: Urme (@ ) on: Wed Aug 4 12:56:14
  
  Many of you would recall earlier in this thread and in the caste thread of Punnahai, I made statements to the effect - people change and so caste change in one's lifetime. I also argued in both threads that while Karma exists, so does caste alongside it. I wasn't saying that to demean anyone. It arose out my reasoning which offended many.
  
  Here is recent evidence to support those statements oif mine mande many months ago: Go to:
  http://www.panoramatv.ca/philPanditJairam/phil.htm
  
  
• From: Urme (@ 192.30.226.31) on: Wed Aug 4 12:58:18 EDT 2004
  
  Well, really why I made those statements is because the people from "India" look down on people in places like Guyana and Trinidad as always being "low caste".
  
  For further evidence go see the Fiji and other threads made refenrece to in my thread "The treatemetn of Guyanese and Trini peole by Indians..."
  
  
• From: Urme (@ 192.30.226.31) on: Wed Aug 4 12:58:29 EDT 2004
  
  Well, really why I made those statements is because the people from "India" look down on people in places like Guyana and Trinidad as always being "low caste".
  
  For further evidence go see the Fiji and other threads made refenrece to in my thread "The treatment of Guyanese and Trini peole by Indians..."
  
  
• From: Nedunchezhiyan (@ cache-mtc-ae09.proxy.aol.com) on: Thu Aug 5 15:27:09 EDT 2004
  
  Urme what is ur problem? You talk bad about Thamizhans..remember the plane story you told us? I didn't forget that. You think Thamizhans should be Hindians...you are talking about caste and u like brahmins?
  
  
• From: ukw (@ 128.252.181.24) on: Thu Aug 5 16:48:03 EDT 2004
  
  NC:
  
  It is always misunderstanding in the other end.
  
  Wait and see, how c misunderstands me and attacks me for making the above statement now? ;-))))
  
  
• From: happyindian (@ bbcache-9.singnet.com.sg) on: Thu Aug 5 23:52:33 EDT 2004
  
  urme, i'd like u 2 c wht i've written 4 u in the "brahmins r more inteliigent??" thread. pl read it. tks.
  
  
• From: happyindian (@ bbcache-9.singnet.com.sg) on: Thu Aug 5 23:53:03 EDT 2004
  
  urme, i'd like u 2 c wht i've written 4 u in the "brahmins r more intelligent??" thread. pl read it. tks.
  
  
• From: Urme (@ 192.30.226.28) on: Sat Aug 7 14:30:01 EDT 2004
  
  > remember the plane story you told us? I didn't forget that<
  
  Nedunchezhiyan,
  
  I can't think of what story you are talking about. There has been so many I told over the year :). If you are talking about the one where I was referred to as wonderlady, or something like that, you should know that that story did not come from me. Its a story well known by all Hindus. Here is the proof:
  
  http://www.panoramatv.ca/philBhajanananda/phil.htm
  
  Its a funny story actually and I can see why Tamils are so sensitive and get upset :-).
  
  However, you and other Tamils would be pelased to know that King Ravana had a very good brother (by character not only by his owning a temple and worshipping in it)living in Lanka too. When Hanumanji went looking for Sita, he could see no temple. The only one he came across was that owned by Ravana's brother where he (Ravana's brother) go to worship. So, the moral here also is, we should not judge one by his or her family.
  
  

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