From: sonia gomes
Is there some effort on Goanet to search for "true" goans?
Welcome to reality on Goanet, Sonia. Considerable amounts of the debate on this forum for months now have focused on this very issue. It is the usual divisive agenda of dividing people into good and bad based on ethnic background. In such a context, this kind of status assumes overwhelming importance in some people's minds.
People move all the time, I met a family called Pai in Kerala, originally from Goa but moved to Kerala a long time ago. They go to Goa everytime there is something of importance in the family, a wedding, a journey abroad, they however did not know a word of Konkani but are fluent in Malayalam. What are they goans or Malayalis ? Does it matter ?
Couldn't agree with you more that it is a totally irrelevant issue. But when you start classifying people as good or bad based on such things, beating your breast and trumpeting your ethnic background becomes very important. -- Question everything -- Karl Marx
