Hi there. I'm still going through my notifications because I keep getting caught up to threads I follow, rate me late, autistic, mad on the internet, or whatever else. I specifically take exception to the below
Hmmm
most desi immigrants post 2000 are usually turbo leftist retards who bleat about "muh racism" while they babble in Hindi/Urdu (the WORST)/Bengali (the second worst)/Tamil/Telugu/
Maliyam/ whatever else constantly and dress in ethnic costume while their out of control children run around screaming and also babbling in 3rd worlder.
Leave my Mallu brothers out of this. I don't give a crap about the Indo-Aryan speakers you listed like the Hindu/Urdu/Bengali-speaking peoples, nor do I care about the Tamil/Telugu speakers. The Malayalam speakers though?! They're actually
Christians. Not even that bullshit post-colonial Christianity that the Brits, French, and Portuguese spread either; they were Christians for a similar if not greater stretch of time than the Ethiopians and the Armenians.
The Malabar coast, now the modern-day Indian state of Kerala, was a known hub for Jewish traders during the life and times of Jesus Christ. The voyages of Saint Thomas the Apostle very likely happened in the first century AD using these trade routes that were long established in Roman times. Even if we attribute the voyages of Saint Thomas the Apostle to the realm of mere myth and legend, Syriac Christians from Edessa in the Sassanian Empire evangelised the Malabar Coast around the 3rd or 4th century AD. Either way, that group of Christians were known for millennia as the "Saint Thomas Christians."
The Saint Thomas Christians haven't been a singular, unified Christian minority since the 1500s thanks to Portuguese meddling in the Malabar Coast leading to countless schisms happening,
but Christianity still remains a strong presence in Kerala to this day. These people are Dravidian speakers who utilise Aramaic, the language of the so-called Lord of Lords and King of Kings, in their liturgies (their Holy Qurbanas). For anyone who cares, this is how the demographics line up for the three most significant churches in Kerala:
- Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (Eastern Syriac Rite, split from the Nestorian Church of the East, by far the oldest extant rite of Christianity in practice today no matter how Latinised the rite became in later centuries)
- Syriac Orthodox Church (Western Syriac Rite, I'm including both the Malankara and Jacobites since they're both directly subservient to the Miaphysite Patriarch of Antioch running the Syriac Orthodox Church, they split from the Nestorians who entered communion with the Catholic Church after re-establishing contact with the Syriac patriarch in the 1600s)
- Mar Thoma Syrian Church (Western Syriac Rite, split from the Jacobites/Malankara due to the Brits introducing Reformation ideas, they're among the few extant Eastern Protestant groups. They retain the Holy Qurbana and extensive usage of Aramaic in their liturgies, but they have a 66-book Bible and are in communion with the Anglicans)
There are also scattered Evangelical, Pentecostal, Latin Rite Catholics, and garden variety Anglicans mixed in with the Saint Thomas Christians nowadays. There's also still an extant church in communion with the Assyrian Church of the East in Iraq, but it's near extinction (i.e. less than 50,000 adherents). Kerala, to this day, is also among the cleanest, most educated, and
safest provinces in all of modern-day India. I'll gladly jump in on talking shit about jeets; I'm South Asian and I know the India Menace thread speaks a lot of truths I try to repress. Having said that: be educated with your hatred of the Jeet menace. If there were ever a group of Indians that deserve our respect, it would undoubtedly be the Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala.
I say all of this as an Indo-Iranian speaker with absolutely no ties to anything due south of the Deccan Plateau where Dravidian speakers overtake the Indo-Aryan speakers.
