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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kosandpol" data-source="post: 4602232" data-attributes="member: 105851">Not quite. To the hill county sinhalese, anyone born south of Balangoda is a "paththaya" and he's pretty much born with it.Also when was the last time a low income earner , even of he's a Sinhala person, allowed through the front door ? Its the rear entrance for him. Suddenly you're "Mahaththaya" to the  guy who's fixing your car engine and he's somehow inferior to you. The fact that his knowledge exceeds yours doesnt matter anymore.Cast system is still pretty much in place whether we like to admit it or not.Its a disgrace to Buddhism, Not just to that story. Yet there it is. Another example is the "Diyawadana Nilame" position at the Temple of tooth. There was a huge fuss when Niranjan Wijeratne managed to get that job. The cast and creed matters a hell of a lot there.According to what you say, at least in Hinduism, the religion states you're in this cast and you follow it. There's no humbug about it. (that its completely wrong is a different issue here)But among the Sinhala "Baudda", they disgraces the very religion they are supposed to uphold by clinging on to these casts.</blockquote>

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