**The only decent career options are to become a doctor, engineer, lawyer, accountant, or teacher. Everything else is trash.
* (Truth) Only Doctor and Engineer are respectable Professions. Rest are the lesser professions, that you can opt, if you didn’t get admissions for Engineering and MBBS
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**Not a fair child? Something is very fishy, even if the parents maybe dark!
** This is an aristocratic belief, not every one share with (Generally Malayalees (I hate the term “Mallu”) are darker people with Dravidian Origin, with some exceptions) . But this apply to whole India (Especially in North) .

**Popular Hindu protagonists in Malayalam cinema are either Varmas or Namboodiris (royal family/Brahmin priest caste) or Menons (feudal family caste that enjoyed proximity to the Varmas and Namboodiris) but they are orphans too!
*** Yaa, there are some “Thampuran” movies. But again, this applies to whole India. In the case of Malayalam movies, at least, there are some notable exceptions. Other industries even don’t have that.

Mimicry and comedy is one and the same thing.
** Unfortunately, in now a days, “YES!!”. But Malayalam Cinema has produced many quality comedy movies, in the past. I think in the case of Comedy, Malayalam Cinema is still better than other industries in India (Especially in Satire, like Sreenivasan Movies) .

**Getting drunk is so macho but it is only for men!
**Very True!!. This has become a big menace here!. It is a social problem bigger than Mullapperiyar. Finally, the woman who drink (even it is a beer), is considered as a Bitch here!!.

***Vicco Turmeric cream is mainly for men than women.
** This is the first time I’m hearing this!!. I don’t know how many in kerala have actually used “Vicco Turmeric”.

**Molesting or misbehaving with women inside a bus is perfectly respectable. Planes and boats are included too.
** This is a good one!! I like this (your comment) most (Especially the Plane part )!! Definitely, Kerala is a Male Chauvinistic Society. Atrocities against women are increasing in Kerala.

**Men with moustaches are more macho than the rest.
**These are general Dravidian Beliefs.

**Men disapprove of girls who visit beauty parlors and of course, none of those girls include their girl friends, wives or sisters. These guys are lucky to find all the ‘natural’ beauties!
** Yes! But these are changing now.

***Men in the family should be served first, wives and sisters and daughters must wait till it’s time to clear up, as family etiquette depends on this tradition.
** This is really an old Item. I don’t know, now a days any body is following this.

**Malayali girls who wear jeans? No, no, they just want to attract men. My question is, so what about men who wear jeans?
** Now a days, this is changing. Now, it is hard to find a Malayalee Girl who doesn’t have a Jeans in her wardrobe!

**A Mallu girl, who wears a ‘bindi,’ looks down at her feet with humility when men are around, and dresses traditionally is a ‘good’ girl.
**This is a common belief in entire India.

**Malayali actresses should not expose and they should look ‘naadan’.
** This is partially true. There are actresses who expose for the completeness of a character and still considered as Nadan. Any way, it is true that traditional looking girls always have more market in Malayalam Cinema than modern girls. But this is changing with the advent of NRK girls to the industry. Any way, Beauty lies in the eyes of the behold!!. )

**If you are a girl and attending a mallu wedding/ engagement/temple ceremony/prayer/house warming, deck up in all your gold jewelry so that a prospective mother-in-law from a good family can spot the potential.
** Yes!! with a slight difference. I haven’t find that it is mandatory for unmarried girls in Kerala, though there are some exceptions!. But it is true that Married girls in Kerala must have to display their ornaments, to take pride of their family. Unfortunately Malayalees give too much importance to the Gold and Only thriving business in Kerala is Jewellery. Only positive side, I can see in this, is that gold is a good investment in these recession times.

**Don’t marry a girl who sings before the public, something is fishy about her character.
** Well, this should have been included in Men’s Section.

**Don’t marry into a family that has inter-caste marriage because your children or grandchildren may be motivated to do the same.
** Sadly, this is true in a Society, where Cast System was abolished. Kerala is becoming more and more Conservative in recent years. The progressive movements have lost its charm. Earlier people have shed their caste names attached with their name, and now the trend is reversing. More and more people taking pride of their Caste. I must say, we need a second wave of progressive movements, like those happened in pre-independence period, now, to clear this out.

**Marrying a guy from the Gulf is like winning a lottery ticket.
** Now a days this is changing!. Now a software engineer from USA (Even if he lived there only for 1 month) holds this position.

**Don’t marry talkative girls because they are sure to talk back to the in-laws.
** True!! But this belief is prevalent in every where in the Country.

Don’t marry girls who are nurses, lawyers, air hostesses, or models because they are too much in contact with men who are not related to them.
** Well, this should have been included in Men’s believes section . I have a friend who is working in US as a software engineer, having difficulty in getting married, just because she is working outside the country!. Guys think that she is smarter than them, so it is not easy to control her. .

**Don’t marry without checking the ancestry and lineage of both families because a black sheep in the family (like me, for example!) could pollute the genes of several generations.
Don’t marry girls who are motherless because who will look after them when they are in the family way?
** True!!. Anyway, arranged marriages in India, generally follow this pattern.

**Girls who wear make-up, sleeveless clothes and short skirts are not ok to marry though you should go ahead and date them to ‘check’ it out.
** Very true!! For marriage, Kerala men always prefers a “Nadan girl” , but they often fantasize about dating a ‘modern girl’ . You can relate recent “Ranjini Haridas Controversy” with this!. Unfortunately, Kerala has become a bastion of “Moral Police”.

**Girls with short hair are not girls, so don’t marry them!
** ))).

I quite surprised that you all miss one point: in Kerala, streets look as if there is curfew after 7pm. Kerala doesn’t have many ways to entertain: no big malls (nothing when you compared to Noida/gurgoan etc),almost no night dances, new year parties…so obviously anyone who has stayed in Mumbai or Chennai will feel bored here…

But besides this, there isn’t much ‘kazhambu’ in what you can say. You are trying to compare Kerala with Mumbai or Chennai. Even the state of Maharashtra or TN if taken as a whole won’t stand a chance against Kerala.

Have you ever felt discriminated on the basis of caste/religion in Kerala? I have been to many other states in India and have really faced the ugly side of discrimination.

You are speaking about the discrimination against women: In many of the states of India, you won’t speak against discrimination of women, cause you won’t even be born. You will be killed the moment your parents come to know that you are a girl.

Have you ever seen real poverty in Kerala? The living standard is much higher here. People are aware of their rights. They fight for it.In many villages in TN people still work for 40RS a day, while in Kerala, even an unskilled laborer earns 150Rs minimum. I have just returned from a trip from a village in Maharashtra….. I wonder how people live there. How many houses in Kerala have you seen without a toilet? Have you ever seen people shitting near roadside in Kerala? If you are in a train anywhere else in India, wake up by 6.30 am, get a warm cup of coffee and just watch “the scenery” near railway track.

You Mumbaikars—Nee Dharavi Dharavi-nu kettitundo? Have u seen such a slum in Kerala? You might feel that Kerala is backward when you compare it to other Indian cities. The difference between Kerala and North India is that, while in North India several cities have grown tremendously, Kerala has more or less uniform growth.There isn’t much difference between a village and city in Kerala. Kochi is just an overgrown village.

I can’t say that Kerala is goody good. Kerala is a conservative society, almost repressive in nature. And this is a problem here. Boys resort to eve teasing-cause that is the only thing you can do here. You can’t even hold the hand of your girl friend in public, if ever you have one. But eve teasing is not an acceptable practice here. Haven’t you seen young men thrashed to a pulp for eve teasing in Kerala’s buses.

True–Kerala looks towards Gulf as the promised land. But Mallus have always dared to go beyond their boundaries. There is this famous joke of astronauts seeing a thattukada in the moon. Going outside the state requires a will to change your believes and tradition. WE ARE WILLING TO CHANGE.

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