Is it true that you can?t convert to Hinduism - that you have to be born into it?

And if you did convert, how would you determine your caste?

Apparently you can marry into it, thus a conversion of some sort must take place.

Well...you can convert to Hinduism...I know that for sure but I suppose you get to choose your caste if you decide to change...

No, some believe you do - while other believe you have to.

I think you can convert to the principles,beliefs and practice,but you might need a Guru to make it official.There must be different rituals thin the life of an hindmost,and also the fact that your not Indian make you an out cast.

No, it is not true.
One can convert to Hinduism and one need not to be born into it.
However, when you club the matter with the social custom, your earning, your activities and accommodation, marriage relationship and various execution of social activities, you have to be born into it, as the son / daughter of a Hindu Father and Hindu Mother. But what is Hindu - it is some meaningless records of the Finance Minister of India. Nothing else, in which Muslim, Christian and many other religions are 'backward classes' - because a backward class person of a northern State was suffered for living like many forward classes were being suffered, and one Ministry (with backward class Prime Minister) granted a pension to all the backward classes in south, east, west and northern parts of the country. Thus many people became curious to convert to backward classes and Hinduism.

hi there,
I really don't know too much about Hindu, but some of my Hindu friends told me that they believe in couple of hundred gods, and they make them out of mud and worship them for a while, and then kick those statues into the rivers. Oh, and they also worship cows, goats, and their holy food is cow dung and they also sprinkle their foods with cow pee. Trust me, my friends told me they do these for real.And after that ,I stopped eating in in Hindu restaurants.
Anyway, if you really wanna change your current religion, you could check out my another friend's religion. I kinda liked their rituals. The religion is called Islam.
I once studied the bible , but all I found was a bunch of unverified stories which confuses the readers. First I saw that there were over 9 versions of the bible, and each of them were different. It said that Jesus was God's son....but then I started thinking that if God is not a human, then how could he have kids. This guy was saying that look, Jesus didn't have any father, so his dad must have been God himself! But when I told him that Adam and Eve didn't have any parents either. Does that make them god's children too? Well, all this was so confusing , that I started looking into some other religion to see what they had to say about God etc.Then Bible considers everyone to be sinners, and that God had to send his "son" to get rid of sins.This was strange that God would kill his innocent "son" in order to get rid of evil Satan.! it sounded pretty cruel to me.Why would His "son" have to die for other peoples sins, or for Satan, who makes people sin? Christianity also calls religious law a curse,and so that if someone follows religious laws ,they are in a curse.
Not too long ago, I bumped into this guy named Yousef Estes. He was a priest, so I told him about my confusions.Then he told me about a book called the Quran. It was the holy book of a religion called Islam. He told me that this book was "really" original. And trust me, when I read it, it didn't seem man made at all. The entire book didn't have a single contradictory statement. Then I later searched on you tube...you may want to check this out too; "Miracles of the Quran by Harun Yahya".If you watch a couple of those videos , you'll be amazed by some of the facts that matches so much with modern science. I mean if a guy wrote that book, he couldn't have known all this stuff more than 1400 years ago. In Islam,everyone is responsible for their own deeds, good or bad. No one dies or suffers for other peoples sins. If someone does something wrong, all he has to do is ask God for forgiveness sincerely,and promise not to do it again. God will certainly forgive him according to his intentions.
At first, I wasn't too sure if this Quran was original Cox I thought it was also altered like the bible, but I later went to Turkey. There, I saw the original copy of the Quran, which was written 1400 years ago. It matched exactly with the current one.
Anyway, just check these out.I'm sure it will clear out your confusion.
Obviously there has to be some One up there who made us, created Adam and Eve.
there are so many different beliefs around,one really needs to look deep into a religion to determine if it is authentic.
the maze is to find the right religion that will lead us to heaven. if it weren't so confusing then god wouldn't have created heaven or hell.
anyway i bumped into this faith that made sense to me. it it believes that god sent Judaism through prophet Moses, and Christianity through Jesus, and lastly Islam through Muhammad. it honors all the past religions and it is the only faith that was never changed a bit since the prophet mohammads time.
unlike Christianity which is pretty confusing with so many bibles that has been altered and Judaism that also changes their laws through Rabbis, Islam was never changed , not laws nor the holy Quran. you can actually find the real 1400 years old copy in a museum in Turkey. I don't know much about science thing, but this religion is so full of scientific proofs and it is also a complete way of life.you won't be disappointed if you checked out this religion.

Good luck and keep searching