On 27 November 2010 19:36, J. Colaco < jc> <cola...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No .....they (the builders) were not Goans ....not even your
> "Goanese".......but they would be quite spirited in the evening
> courtesy Dalda (the code word for Navsagar)......the awful smell would
> permeate the atmosphere of very colourful "hyderabadi".
> YUCK!
Just for the sake of discussion, isn't it entirely possible that
someone from some other State could replace the word Navsagar ("new
ocean") with say, Feni, above?
.. but they would be quite spirited in the evening courtesy ...
Feni... the awful smell would permeate the atmosphere ... YUCK!
Aren't we guilty of the very same thing we accuse others for?
Stereotyping and chauvnism against a culture which is "not ours"? FN
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