Eugene,
Though I agree with you that we should now put this issue to rest, I do not
resist the temptation to ask you where you found the place name Saligoa.
As far as I know, it is and has always been Saligao (or Saliganv in
Konkani), never Saligoa. Excuse me for the question - no hard feelings.
Jorge
- Original Message -
From: Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: jose colaco [EMAIL PROTECTED]; goanet@goanet.org
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:15 AM
Subject: [Goanet]re: dinesh profile on websites
Thanks to Jose's instigation, I googled Dinesh. But
even on his own website he hasn't given details of his
herediatry.
Made a more specific search on his goan roots on
google and here's one of the sites
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040510/asp/opinion/story_3218559.asp
Unfortunately, the site
http://goacom.com/saligao_tinto/scroll.htm does not
list him as one of the proud sons of Saligoa. Maybe
rightly so, for Dinesh is a Assagoakar, and a grandson
of Saligoa.
But the tinto --
http://www.goacom.com/saligao_tinto/balcao.htm#dinesh
-- says it's proud of him.
here's what the Telegrapha site says:
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THE GREAT INDIAN CLASS TEST
COMMENTARAO / S.L. RAO
The author is chairman, Institute for Social and
Economic Change
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Elitism or meritocracy?
In The Karma of Brown Folk, Vijay Prashad examines the
model minority that many in the south Asian
community in the United States of America believe that
they belong to. He argues that American Orientalists
(including ideologues like the immigrant from Goa,
Dinesh D'Souza), have perpetuated the stereotype that
south Asian immigrants (unlike the blacks) are a
special breed. They are said to demonstrate the
finest qualities of hard work and an impatience to
succeed. He goes on to paraphrase D'Souza as arguing
in his book, The End of Racism, that the oppressive
conditions of life among black Americans is more a
result of their civilizational collapse than of the
persistence of structures of racial discrimination.
Prashad takes the contrary position that this is a
false contrast of racial stereotypes. He says that the
attainments of Asians in the US are not caused by
natural or cultural selection; rather, they are the
result of state selection whereby the US state,
through the special-skills provisions in the 1965
Immigration Act, fundamentally reconfigured the
demography of south Asian America.
Eugene Correia
PS: Let's put this issue to rest.
