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Lineage doesn't mean squat - A person is the sum of the decisions he makes in life !
Kerala is a good place !
You know I sometimes wonder if South India was a separate country - We probably would've had good relations with you guys - You're not the 'Alaaalaaa types' that start foaming & frothing from the mouth like we Pakistanis & North Indians do to each other !
That's a misconception about South Indians.
You have to keep in mind that the 4 states (soon to be 5) that comprise South India all have different languages, cultures and have disputes over River water distribution that has gotten acrimonious at times.
You have to keep in mind that it is the Atheistic politics that has kept out Conservative Hinduism out of politics.
@Armstrong there was a proposal for a seperate South Indian nation called Dravida Nadu, and it flopped because none of the other three states were willing to come under Tamil domination.
South Indians are still overwhelmingly Hindu, and their sympathies would lie with the North Indians.
There is no cultural similarity to speak of, and the South Indians who complained about North Indian arrogance would have viewed Pakistan as an Islamic version of it.
South Indians are only marginally better off than North Indians. That's not a compliment.
@Armstrong You have to remember that prior to independence, South India was more socially unequal, had more casteism and was more conservative than North India.
It took a lot of blood in Kerala to get some semblance of equal rights.
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