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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I contrast this with Goan Mestizos, Anglo-Indians > and > East Indians. For some reason, even three to four > generations removed from any genetic link, they > never > fail to remind us of some obscure link to the West. > Of > the three groups, I find East Indians the most > peculiar. East Indians are no more an ethnic group > than the NRIs of today. Their fore-fathers worked > for > the East India Company. In time their names came to > Anglicised to facilitate payroll functions, they > learnt to pronounce "dahl" as "dol" and call > "sambar", > pepper-water. That does not make them an ethnic > group. > It is about time they called themselves what they > really are, Maharashtrans or Mumbaikars. For some > strange reason, they want to assume an entire > ethnicity specific to themselves. > > What is it about human nature that sometimes wants > to > cling onto things to which they have only dubious > links and at other times relinquish links when they > are more obvious. ------------------------------------ Nasci responds: dear Elisabeth, (I notice Elisa is back?) You are definitely wrong in what you write about 'East Indians'. I have lots of close friends and had neighbors as East Indians. First of all these people do not call themselves that! The Goan Christians in Bandra and Bombay first used the term for them, to distinguish Goan Catholics from the local Catholics of Bombay ancestry. they are the local and thorough indegenous breed of the people who inhabited the Seven Islands of then Bombay and Bassein and around who converted to Catholicism under then Portuguese rule, and later strenghtened under British rule. So we could say East Indians are ethnic Bombayites. the original inhabitants of Bombay, now reduced to a small minority, in Bombay the huge Metropolis. In the last three decades the East Indians and Goans have almost completely integrated, and friendly and lots of inter marriages too! The names are stuck like Gaons talk of Shasticar and Bardezcar etc. They have no more or less links to westerners than Goans have. So be kind to these people; OK? Thank you. Nascy Caldeira Melbourne Down Under. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org