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If all the lower castes do it and all the people from higher castes keep the signifying surnames, what does that change?

• jolmg 6y ago
  > and all the people from higher castes keep the signifying surnames But that's not what was said. YetAnotherNick said many of all castes are doing this.
  • BoorishBears 6y ago
    That's literally the point... now people from all castes are doing it, so it changes something. The comment I replied to implies "why didn't the lower castes just always change their surnames", I pointed out why.
    • jolmg 6y ago
      > The comment I replied to implies "why didn't the lower castes just always change their surnames" Not implied. I was outright asking. > I pointed out why. By adding a non-existent condition that doesn't follow and using it as a reason. That's unless you're saying that if the remaining lower-caste also used these neutral names, that would cause the upper-caste that had chosen to also adopt these neutral names to return to using the upper-caste names. What's wrong with having these neutral names be used by many of the upper-caste (as they apparently are) and also all of the lower-caste? Am I not making sense? Because that's the scenario I was asking about.