Thanks for bringing it up. Else discussion would ve been one quarter.
Even I am known to a Jat boy who is married to a Chamar girl, who is an IAS(IRS-Batch 07).
At Harvard/MIT only high IQ people get admission. IQ is the basic criteria. Societal dominance can't be alone achieved with higher IQ though a life full of luxary could be.
Now my question back to your question is :- Does IQ trump everything? Does IQ trump genetic superiority gained through centuries of evolution?
And it was hard for me to believe and accept but in realistic day to day world Jaati is by birth. Genetics is next to the God. Nature hardly cares for an IIT/MIT/Harvardian or a school drop out when it comes to survival endurance and longeivity. Life is a practical joke thrown at humanity by God.
I am not sure if I understand the relevance of points made by you. Sunil has nicely explained the logical fallacy of this argument. But my question is what's the relevance of societal dominance in a marriage? Before marriage, do people really go about thinking--- hmm, if I marry this person, I am going to really dominate the masses. Yeah, maybe in medieval history where kings made marital alliances to increase their sphere of influence. Maybe, some really "driven" people still do this. But what's the relevance to average Joginder?
And then if you genuinely want to choose a genetically superior mate, then I am afraid you are going about it in a completely wrong way. I mean, if you are really serious about it, you should get a full DNA mapping of your prospective partner apart from a comprehensive health assesment. Because the jati tag is no guarantee for anything. It has been scientifically proved that more than 99% of genetic makeup of all human beings is the same- derived from the first set of homosapiens in Africa. The 1% difference can account for lots of differences- from eye color to height and what not. But this 1% is then not some constant over a set of people like a jati. DNA mappings reveal totally surprising results- like some guy in Africa whose no known ancestor ever stepped out of Africa- had some Western European genes. In a geography like Northwest India that has seen all sorts of people come and go (I mean we still don't know if Jats came from somewhere or were natives), it'd be a bit naive to assume genetic superiority without checking.
And don't get me wrong. It is possible that "on average" Jats may have some genetically desirable traits. Afterall, we see a lot of Jats doing well in Sports. But "on average" is a very dangerous term. Like I may throw 9 BPL people and Mukesh Ambani in a room and say that the average wealth of this room is 5 billion dollars (Just making up numbers- 50 billion for mukesh, 0 for others. 50 divided bv 10 is 5). But if you randomly have to choose a partner from there, then 90% chance is that you will end up with a BPL person. This is an exaggerated example. I hope the chances within Jats is much better (