From: Gilbert Lawrence I do not think it is the "Catholic Brahmins at the top of the pyramid falling the hardest" as much as the entire spectrum of lower classes through English medium education in Goa and out of Goa, (high school and college), and the diaspora prosperity rose in affluence, influence, knowledge and intelligence. Many of them overt-took the native Catholic Brahmins. It is the same education and affluence of diaspora Goans and their native dependents that many academics (falsely) claim Catholic Goans as losing their culture. I will be more than happy to dialog with the author.
Regards,Gilbert LawrenceCo-author "Insights into Colonial Goa"Published by Amazon and Kindle -----------From: Frederick Noronha The Goan Patient (or the Impatient Goan): A Cultural Speculation 1 Lynn Mario Menezes de Souza [I am currently a tenured full professor at the Modern Languages Departmentof the University of Sao Paulo. I work in the fields of Foreign Languages and Literatures, focusing on language policy, literacy studies, decoloniality and interculturality. I have a BA (Hons) in Linguistics from the University of Reading (UK), an MA in Applied Linguistics from the Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC), a PhD in Communication Studies and a Semiotics also from the Catholic University of Sao Paulo, and a professorial thesis (Livre Docencia) from the University of Sao Paulo.] 2018, Inter DISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies Vol. 7 Maati on the Balcao Steps: An Exploration of the Identity of Catholic Brahmins in Goa through the Memoir Filomena's JourneysGail Pinto This paper seeks to explore the changing Identity of the Goan Catholic Brahmin community of Goa through the period prior to, and post liberation. As the Goan middle class began to migrate to British India in search of jobs in the early and middle decades of the 20th century, Goa's feudal social order began to crumble with the Catholic Brahmins at the top of the pyramid falling the hardest. ....
