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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Mario, You were doing fine until you decided to muddy the post with your usual barbs. The reason I have singled out the East Indian Community is precisely because they cannot assume that title with any legitimacy. For your information, ethnically, I am neither a Gulf Goan nor when I leave the shores of the USA will I be a US Goan. Even being an NRI for eons can I assume it as my ethnicity. You don't seem to grasp the meaning of the word "ethnic". Ethnicity involves commonality of culture, language or religion of a particular region. The commonality cannot be that all their forefathers worked for the East Indian Company. Thus, their commonality makes their Maharashtrans for they hail from Maharashtra, speak Marathi, their religion is Christianity which makes that Maharashtrans who are Christians and they share their culture with that of fellow Maharashtrans. It does not make them East Indians being "alumni" of the East India Company. As for your barb, that I am vaguely familiar with India, I assure you from your writing I can deduce that I am far more grounded in the reality of India being a taxpaying citizen of the country, than you are having exported yourself a lifetime ago. My last post on the subject since I am really engaging in a redundant argument, as I doubt East Indians are weeping in their pepper-water reading my posts about the legitimacy of their ethnicity. Thank you, selma ----------------------------------- --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No one in India obsesses on such cultural minutiae, > it > doesn't take away from being Indian, and no one is > going to change because one expatriate "Gulf Goan", > vaguely familiar with India, looks on the Indian > mosaic with a jaundiced eye. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com) _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org