FN, your line of comparison-reasoning is off the target. FdRF has a valid point. The point is this: Goans expect their CM to dress formally for a formal occasion (be it western or Indian formal). That is one of the traits that makes us Goans. A bush shirt and trousers is neither. Both you and Ana Maria have gone tangential on this while the Falcon-King has made the appropriate projection.
Now, important as you are to Goanet and to the Goan cyber world, you are not the CM or a high publicly elected representative of the people. Nor is the Falcon asking anyone to legislate anything. He is merely asking for dress appropriate to the occasion. Roland. Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> Date: 24-01-2014 3:33 PM (GMT-05:00) To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Dress well Mr.CM On 24 January 2014 23:51, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão <drferdina...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Very true Ana Maria. When your children get married, will > you find them stupid for wearing a suit or a wedding gown? Would you tell them > to get married in a bush shirt or jeans and a t-shirt? Just btw, I did get married in an off-white kurta-pjama. Something like this http://bit.ly/1jKItEU Nobody complained. (If they did, I would have treated it as their problem, not mine.) I found it comfortable, simple and more in keeping with my approach to life. Would anyone have a problem with that? (Subsequently, I have gone about in a suit, but my approach is: avoidable.) I do believe that the chief minister deserves to be criticised. But the clothes he wears should be 99th or 127th on the list of issues to criticise him over. There are in fact a lot of class and/or cultural biases in deciding what is apt clothing. We are revealing our bias in deciding what is 'right' and 'wrong'. This is as apt as someone else deciding whether Sikhs should be allowed to wear turbans, whether Muslim women ought to feel comfortable in burqas or not, and so on. To my mind, this is all relative to what we believe and see as "apt". See a cartoon which makes the point appropriately. So true: http://sglx3.netsarius.com/~rimasg/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/burqas-or-bikinis-L-FQ9zzd.jpeg Next we will start legislating what someone else's children should be studying in schools, what dialect and script should serve as their medium of instruction, what can be "acceptable" "mother tongues", and what not! Go forward a bit and we should also be thinking about what religion people follow ("foreign" or "Indian"). Or what garb is suitable for a woman at what age in her life! Let not our intolerance show. FN -- FN Phone +91-832-2409490 Mobile +91-9822122436
