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16-18, May 2008 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corrections to Rajan's angry response to my post are interspersed below: > >Nobody postulated a "single monolithic identity" >(whatever the hell that is) to begin with. > I referred to the "single monolithic Goan identity", which we were told was unique and superior to the identity of non-Goans, requiring special status for Goa within the sovereign republic of India. > > Two Goans are no more alike than two members of > the same family living under the same roof. Why > must all members of a family be identical in > everything they do & think? Can't they otherwise > not share a common bond, a slew of common traits, > a set of common experiences? > Exactly my point! My rewording of this principle is, a Goan and a non-Goan are no more different from each other than two Goans. We "share a common bond, a slew of common traits, a set of common experiences" with other Indians. That is why the rapid xenophobic attitude of Goan chauvinists towards India and other Indians deserves to be condemned and expunged. > >So, in the bizarro universe you inhabit, unless every >member of the family is a clone of each other there >can be no common identity. Wow, Dr. Einstein. > False. Dr. Rajan (please substitute the name of the greatest photographer in the world here) is resorting to fantasy in the above statement. He imagines thoughts that I have never expressed. Indeed, I have said that in Goa there are many common identities based on religion, caste, taluka, village, vaddo, etc. To carry this discussion forward in a meaningful way, I ask Rajan to kindly list all the things that are common between him and Romlo, so I can get a good sense of their shared unique Goan identity that needs to be preserved, and figure out whether it can be preserved by eliminating non-Goans from Goa. Cheers, Santosh