An education system that emphasizes meekness and obeisance to authority and a historically engrained sense of caste roles in society is currently proving detrimental to the interest of the modern malayali; be it in his work environment or home environment. At his corporate job his ingrained sense of reverence to authority serves to put him in a position of never ending moral perturbation. His psyche fails to comprehend his role in the new establishment as a commodity. The larger historicity of his link to the old establishment affirms in him his role as that of a slave or a person of lower caste; morally obligated to please his masters.
The malayali must realize that the old establishment is paving the way to a new establishment. This establishment takes root from the self esteem movement of America and as such favors people who have been educated in an environment that gives prominence to the growth of self esteem. As a consequence to this emphasis, self esteem grows in them as a moral feeling (this is in contrast to the casteist moral feeling prevailing in Middle class India). This self esteem lends itself to Americans excelling at the new establishment. He an impartially negotiate the position of the commodity that he is without casteist moral hesitancy.
The middle class malayalee inevitably will have to change his way of thinking to align himself with this new reality. He must own up to the inevitability and accept the the consequences (including the most evil one of individualism) and accept death of the old slave establishment and the growth of the new slave establishments.
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