--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >RESPONSE: Are you by any chance Halur ? Yes or NO???? >
No. Hopefully, Halur will tell you that he is not Santosh. Are you Bernardo Colaco? Yes, No, May be or Unsure? > >It is to do with demography and nothing to do with >playing a slant card. It is known all over India that >the Bengalis are the most ardent sports fans in the >whole of India. ..................................... >Similarly I am of the mindset that Goan Hindus would >be more tolerant than from some >other parts of >India -Gujarat springs readily to mind. > I submit to you that you are using a false analogy. Anti-social criminal behavior, even a religiously or ideologically motivated one, is fairly rare in any society, except in times of war. Socially acceptable and desirable behavior such as love of sports or financial activity is very common. One is therefore justified in generalizing a trait based on the cultivation of the latter type of behavior to an entire community, region, culture, religion or nation based on their success at cultivating it. If 80% of the people of a group engage in a particular type of behavior (which is the case with a socially desirable behavior), then it is not much of a stretch to make that behavior a characteristic of 100% of the people of that group. However, one cannot stereotype an entire group of people just because 1% of them exhibited a particular type of behavior (which is the case with criminal behavior) at one time. That is why I find your characterization of "the average non-Goan Hindu" offensive, as you have done in your following quote: "I put it to you, that the average Hindu is easily led, they can then be coerced with litttle compulsion to do the unthinkable!" It is the same thing as stereotyping the average Goan as a drunkard, or the average Goan Catholic girl as exhibiting loose morals, something that has been a staple of a popular genre of Bollywood films. > >Since you are the self proclaimed ruler of Chimbel, I >will bow to your superior knowledge, if you can >categorically inform me that all Christians, Jews, >Muslims are of the same Hue vis a vis their own? > I submit to you that the average Hindu from any part of the world is no more or less criminal minded than the average Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jew, Atheist, Agnostic, etc of any other part of the world. We are all on an average equally susceptible to religious frenzy or mob psychology. I know of gangs in Goa, Hindu, Christian and mixed, some in my own beloved Chimbel or very near to it, who have engaged in various forms of criminal mob behaviors, albeit on a smaller scale. > >That in effect all Hindus are of the same mindset (in >the same vein as those who committed atrocities in >Gujarat). If this is the case than God spare the >Christian Goans in Goa. > I say that both Hindus and Christians in Goa are susceptible to the same mindset. All you need is a sufficiently depraved politician to incite hatred and trigger destructive mob behavior in a small percentage of people, in either the Hindu or the Christian community. Happy New Year! Cheers, Santosh P.S. I think Halur Rasho is an anagram for Rahul Rosha (Rocha).