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    Points:5

    Learning from the most hardworking Kerala people

    We must grant it to them. The art of hardworking. Of being very open to new ideas and encouraging others to grow as well.

    In terms of adaptitiveness, the people of Kerala are the best. They will quickly adapt themselves to new cultures. Three things stand out. First, and most important, is their ability to do any job. Second, is their tolerance of ambiguity and being able to negotiate the unknown. Third is their ability to merge with the local people and learn their cultures. I have seen it in New Delhi and Mumbai. The women of Kerala quickly adapt themselves to the fashions in those places and dress very much like the locals. The ability of Kerala people to learn Hindi and other languages is always a treat to watch.

    Most would have a tinge of their native Malayalam language when they speak English. But their hardwork would far outweigh every other single quality of theirs.

    Hats off to these hardworking people. And of course, I do miss the superb pazha bajji, a snack made of oil and ripe banana that we get only in Coimbatore city and everywhere in Kerala.
  • #767485

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    Points:4
    That is true. Keralites are very much adaptive and hardworking in nature. They never hesitate to do any job for a living. All people should learn from them. They never hesitate to move to any other place for making their living. But they never forget their motherland. They have the ability to learn anything that is required for making a living.
    An interesting issue I noticed is I found Keralites in almost all places I visited in India as well as abroad.
    What I observed is the people from interior Telangana are entirely different from this. They don't want to move from their native place and they will never like to go for hard work. They will manage with whatever is available to them in their village and they want easy money.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #767486

      

    Points:3
    The author seems to have a penchant for emphasizing what people wear, in various threads. Is adapting to fashion really beneficial and something to praise? Dressing styles I would say could be more for personal comfort and not for "fashion". For example, somebody who wears a saree on a daily basis in one city may require to adapt to the climate, the commute, and the work role that is taken up in another city and hence may switch to other types of garments.
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  • #767489

    Points:5 (₹ 5)
    Being a Keralite it gives me a secret pleasure to read something lauding Keralites. Like everything the fact is of course, a mixed bag.
    Our former PM late Rajiv Gandhi once, while addressing a meeting of Keralites remarked that Keralites are a hardworking sincere and dedicated lot everywhere except in their own state. This may be a comment more close to reality.
    Now, (also being conscious about Vandana's dissenting note on adaptation to dress style), I can say that any migrant community has to adjust and adapt to the host place life style, language and culture mainly because of the survival instinct. Being a very small state almost equaling to a single district of Maharashtra, Keralites had been migrating to any nook and corner of the world, since many decades, where there is availability of work and opportunities for growth.

    The once popular joke, that Neil Armstrong the first man to land on Moon was greeted by a Keralite serving hot tea to him, is a sterling example for the hardworking and migratory nature of Keralites. Keralites have proven in letter and spirit, the Indian motto 'Vasudaiva Kudumbakam'.

    While it is nice to hear such laudatory comments, I think such kind of self pride is liked and commanded by people from any place for their own unique points.

  • #767491

    Points:1
    I do not know if Shri Venkiteswaran Sir belongs to Tamil Nadu, and if his forefathers migrated to Kerala at a later date. Thousands of families now settled in Palghat and a few places like Trivandrum. The ones in Palghat belong to a particular community, whose ancestors were all priests in temples. Today, this community has adapted and become IT professionals, doctors, and so on.

    I do have some such relatives who hail from Palghat. They are as hardworking as the native Kerala people. Their Tamil has a mix of Malayalam and is a treat to watch. Another practice I notice in the Kerala people is that they are so neat; the temples are so clean, and there is a big obsession with keeping everything tidy. They love gardens and maintain their houses so well. I had been to a house in Angamali. The place itself resonates like Kashmir. The greenery there is something fabulous.

    Regarding dress habits, it is based on my observation. One Kerala girl had married a Punjabi boy. It was a love cum arranged marriage. The girl so quickly adapted herself to the attire of the boy's relatives. This happened decades ago, in New Delhi. Since she knew Hindi very well, she learned to cook very well, and the process of adjustment was total. It is just the way of dressing. The most common ways of dressing, way back in the 1980s were seen by people from all over India, in New Delhi. Almost every single woman would be dressed the same way. I found that quite in order, as it was a matter of comfort for anyone and everyone.

    However, I still do believe that the Kerala people are more adaptable than any other State people,,in India.

  • #767496

    Points:4
    I really appreciate the Keralites for their non hesitating to take up any job at anytime and at any place. I have seen them in all parts of our country doing many types of jobs and really it is appreciable as many of us hesitate to move out of our own state or city.
    My professor in our degree course, used to tell about their courage and willingness in the way of an incident. Two persons with very difficulty climbed Himalayas' avalanche and with pride that they are the first most persons reaching their, they staged Indian Flag there and shouted with joy. At that time they heard a voice behind him, 'Entha saare Chaai kazhikkumo' (What about a tea, sir). These two persons shocked and turned and saw that there is a tea shop.

  • #767520

    Points:5
    Let me refer to #767491by ABSivakumar.
    He has mentioned a personal experience and observation...."One Kerala girl had married a Punjabi boy. It was a love cum arranged marriage. The girl so quickly adapted herself to the attire of the boy's relatives. "

    I can also quote a very similar case. In Mumbai, a Marathi girl was married into a Keralite family(a Vaariyar family from Palakkad), obviously a love marriage. I started staying opposite to their flat after a few months after their marriage. The elders in the family and the boy talked to us in fluent Malayalam. The daughter in law was a good girl with all the coyness of a recent married woman in front of strangers. But she was very well behaved and we liked her in the first appearance itself. She was wearing the typical Kerala 'settu mundu' style saree and blouse ,looking every bit a native Kerala girl. My wife took initiative to talk to her and she asked the normal initial courtesy questions. But the young lady smiled and kept quiet answering ne or two questions like her name etc. Then her mother in law gestured to my wife and told that she is a Marathi girl. It was a pleasant surprise to us, because she appeared every bit a traditional Keralite native woman. As my wife could converse in Marathi, they became friends soon and she became almost our family member .

    Now it is many years, we still are in contact with them. This bride very soon adapted herself to the boy's family life style, food, cooking, rituals etc. and she can now understand Malayalam well and her MIL talks to her in Malayalam only. Their child can speak both Malayalam and Marathi. No one will doubt she is not a born Keralite. So adaptation is a personal quality most often encouraged by necessity, need interest. It is definitely a welcome feature.

  • #767544

    Points:4
    Really. I have also seen this thing among people who comes from kerala. Since my childhood, we are connected to a family they are from kerala I used to go to attend classes at their home. Within few days, their relationship with our family turned even more than a family. We are still connected same intensity, same friendliness. They have their own house in our locality constructed in such a way that gives feel of whole kerala. But I can see this vision was not build in just years. That was their long term goal which they had accomplished by hard work, right determination and good relations.

  • #767548

    Points:1
    As a rule, since most of Kerala is really God's own country, the natural surroundings and the simple way seem to have a big sobering influence on the basic cleanliness of anyone from that State.

    To adapt to different cultures and make innovations is in their blood and it comes to them so naturally. The best example is a dish called Avial. It is nothing but a mixture of so many vegetables and a paste of green chillies and curd and some mustard. However, the Kerala style for the same dish has the correct combination of coconut oil judiciously mixed. The net result is the unique taste. That I'd what I like in them. The people from Palghat mix both cultures. The Tamil culture and the Kerala culture. It is just excellent to see that.

  • #767627

    Points:2
    Yes. Of course Kerala people are hard working in outside kerala. Within Kerala they talk about rules and regulations. This is one of the major factor business people not ready to invest in Kerala.

  • #767631

    Points:4
    I have had the opportunity of meeting numerous keratitis and I found one thing common in them - their readiness to adapt themselves with the existing culture of the new environment. They have the excellent abilities to learn the complex issues within the shortest possible time because of their intelligence skills. Though their ascent would reflect their origins but despite this, they could exert influence on others in many areas for their unique qualities in understanding the complexities of the issues which they might be offered for resolving the facts. It might be due to their painstaking abilities hardly found in other people.


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