16th Century traditions, Traditions

Is it proper for you catholic people to …

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Comment posted Some of the traditions and rituals among the Syrian Christians of Kerala by Anil Kaye.

Is it proper for you catholic people to call yourselves syrian christians? Arent you the people who left the Syrian Christian fold and allied with the Roman marpapa scared of the Portuguese threat?
As I understand the actual/true syrian christians in kerala are those who took the oath of the koonen cross and rejected catholicism. The rest who call themselves so are interlopers.

Further, if you are catholics why do you still call yourself syro-xxx catholics? Common wisdom is that it is to differentiate yourselves from your poorer Latin catholic cousins. Would this be correct?

Personally I am a non-believer, though my parents are Orthodox and Marthomite.