Folks, I am just back from watching the closing ceremony of the Olympics.
During the ceremony, the Canadian broadcasters ran a series of clips on the Canadian competitors and their journey in getting to the Olympics. The broadcasters then went on to give examples of how much more difficult it is for people in the less affluent countries to reach the Olympics. But they did. And won medals too. Real inspirational stuff! It would make anyone watching go out and achieve his/her best. Then I get home and read Roland's piece on some underground world of Goan men in Toronto. Looks like the games for the uninspired are taking place. Right here! MervynOOOOOLobo ------------------------------------------------- Roland Francis wrote: But worse, there is this underground world of Goan men in Toronto with little education and living in crowded common homes found in two or three of the city's pockets, who having made their way to Canada, take menial unskilled jobs and use the money to have flings with the city's easy (non Goan) prey. They live this hedonistic, purposeless life until they decide that it is time to marry. Word is passed around in Goa and a pretty, fair, even post-grad working girl is found. Gross lies are told about the job and status of the marriage seeker and the girl soon finds herself in Toronto. That is the beginning of her sad chapter. The woman is made to immediately find work and the bum loses his. She being educated and diligent is liked by her superiors and soon encouraged to pursue a study-program to groom for a higher position. She declines since immediately after work she has to rush home for another set of chores awaiting her and to take a battering doing it. Sometimes with her savings, a house is bought and the obligations surmount. One would think it would be easy to get out of all this by dumping her biggest problem, but a call to the parents in Goa soon disabuses her of that notion. The name of the family must come first and her troubles later. Viva the Goan male.