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markodochartaigh

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19. I worked with many Malayalis, Keralites,

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2025, 08:56 PM

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from South India in my nursing days back in Texas. Occasionally patients would make comments about them. Derogatory religious comments were easy to deflect. I would just tell the person making the comment that the Malayalis had been Christian longer than virtually any Europeans. The original St. Thomas actually died in Kerala 2,000 years ago.

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