英语词汇pariah的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pariah. The Indian class called the Paraiyar in Tamil are not outcasts at all. The Paraiyars were forced into menial positions with the Aryan invasion some 2,000 years before Christ and now form one of the lower castes in southern India, but, al- though they are regarded as “untouchables” by the Brahmins, they are not the lowest Hindu caste. Their name derives from parai, “a large drum,” for their duty was to beat the drum at cer- tain religious festivals. Eventually the Paraiyars became field workers in the Tamil country of Madras; however, when the British came to India they employed most of their household servants from that class, whose name they corrupted to Pariah. Believing that they were the lowest caste or had no caste at all, many British and other Europeans began to use pariah for the lowest of the low, an utter social outcast among his own kind— unjustly degrading the Paraiyars in language just as their coun- trymen degraded them in life.

词汇	pariah
词源	pariah. The Indian class called the Paraiyar in Tamil are not outcasts at all. The Paraiyars were forced into menial positions with the Aryan invasion some 2,000 years before Christ and now form one of the lower castes in southern India, but, al- though they are regarded as “untouchables” by the Brahmins, they are not the lowest Hindu caste. Their name derives from parai, “a large drum,” for their duty was to beat the drum at cer- tain religious festivals. Eventually the Paraiyars became field workers in the Tamil country of Madras; however, when the British came to India they employed most of their household servants from that class, whose name they corrupted to Pariah. Believing that they were the lowest caste or had no caste at all, many British and other Europeans began to use pariah for the lowest of the low, an utter social outcast among his own kind— unjustly degrading the Paraiyars in language just as their coun- trymen degraded them in life.
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