Indiërs Caste System

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their own success. Indiërs in a lower caste lived their life, are doing what they are expected and supposed to do and for them there are not a lot of possibilities to shape their own life.

If an Indiër from a lower caste ever goes to another culture for a while, a country without the cast system, it will be very strange for that person. The caste system is not always a dainty way of life, but for them it is safety and their comfort zone. They do not really know anything else about another way of lifes. Parents and family argue that this is a good one, so the children will adjust their lives in that system. When they are ever out of it in another country, they have to learn the rules from a ‘normal’ society. This is a double shock in comparison with someone else who are getting to know just an other culture. Indiërs have not ever chosen for the caste where they belong, the family is already in there, so their comfort zone is determined by their cultural background and not by their own nature. It is not possible for Indiërs in this example to getting out of their comfort zone the way they want to. Their life is determined by the caste
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As Tartuffel (2010)5 agreed in this culture women were inferior to men, classic Islam sources argue women were ‘third - rate creatures’. These women have little liberty to do what they want to do, they can not even make decisions by themselves about making some career on their own. Women were working a lot as housekeeper and bringing up their children, home is their comfort zone. Women in this culture do not have many chances to getting out of their comfort zone, it’s no option to get out of the comfort zone and make success. Because of this, for a woman it is hard to come out of proverty. The man is superior to his wife and he lays down the rules as stated in the Quran with the sentence "...maar de mannen hebben een rang boven haar" (Soera

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