Our Cultural Pride:1

I was thinking from long time that what I have heard is correct about our country from all of its inhabitants. In my childhood I studied in Adarsh Vidhya Mandir run by RSS which used to fill the fresh and blank minds with the spirit of pride for country as well as hinduism. Our prayer used to consists some songs which meant " India has been golden sparrow, this is the big originator of courageous people and leader of world. " The song didn't last so early and had the glory description of its golden time around the reign of great king Chandragupt Maurya. This song also talked about glory of Veda and many other good rituals which really showed Indian prosperity and high values of culture.
I am talking bout this pride because today we are proud on those things we are not part of. Every action we take we try to justify it with our past by saying " We were best so We are best and whatever we do is correct ". Sometimes it feels like we are trying to hide our frustration as in our heart we know that we are living the distorted conventions and they aren't relevant in today's context. I would point out our few double standards where what we applaud and what we do.
(1) Caste system : In ancient time caste system was not defined by birth but as one caste became superior to others by using its power in wrong manner, the people who captured the label of higher caste never wanted that his sun or daughter don't get profit of the inappropriate rules they made to enjoy for their caste only. By defining other rules they made the caste defined by birth.
(2) Marriage System : This distortion is quite related to the previous problem. As marriage was supposed to be in those families which have same interests. This was the approximation that if couple has same interests then they will understand each other more as well as they will have equal mental status and there will be good resonance between that couple. Over the years things changed and in the name of respect of elders everyone had to follow the caste system and distorted marriage system and its going on in same manner. But I would definitely say if elders try to stop their child from marrying his beloved one in the name of "Sanskars", will it be justified.
(3) Considering superior to others : It is good to have pride on our culture whether it has its past glory or not. for example If someone's mother is black and ugly, she is still the most beautiful woman in the world for him. But this doesn't say he has right to say others mother ugly. Lately I have been listening many bad things from various senior people that We are best and other cultures are worse. If one ask them how they are worse then they will tell u that we are one of the oldest culture and at those times when we were prosperous then they used to live in forests. They criticize them for their nudity with whom i am agree to big extent and the thing we are following most in last few decades. Some people say about their ways of doing things like they don't touch feet to welcome elders which is totally ridiculous as they welcome three times a day by their own ways.