Re: [Goanet] The Healing Process a Dying Race - Gilbert
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And we basically transmitted the same values, beliefs and education systems to your generation, that they transmitted to us. Is that too much to ask the current 25 to 45 year old? We keep beating each other about caste preference for marriage. Yet no one decries the growing number of Catholic Goans marrying non-Goans. This of course will hasten the scenario you outline. --- Dear Gilbert, Values are universal. If you can tell me of one value on which Goans have a monopoly, I will definitely try to pass this on as a Goan Value. When I talk about the demise of the Goan Catholic Community, I am speaking in terms of demographics. Our birth rate is not substantial enough to perpetuate the continuity of this community. Why are you promoting the idea that Goans should confine themselves to marrying fellow Goans? Not wanting to dilute the gene pool is the surest way of diminishing its potential to grow and mutate in ways we can never even dream off. You really must catch up on your Darwinian evolution Gilbert. You don't find any Hittites or Akkadians today. Why, you don't even find Yugoslavians today. We are all but a momentary pause on the continuum of time. We may mourn this reality because we are human beings and we develop attachments, but evolution must move forth, move on and continue the process we call life. selma Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
Re: [Goanet] The Healing Process a Dying Race
--- Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The abuse suffered by Native Indians in Canada provides a parallel to the caste abuse in the Goa of yesteryear. - Roland's parallel to Native Indians in Canada, brought to mind my visit to a Native American Reservation earlier this year and the parallel I then drew to Goan Catholic society. Native Americans are a dying race, their young awkwardly trying to embrace their past in a ritualistic tribal dance while a future calls to them outside the reservation. In a similar vein, just today I heard of a report that said young Jews in America do not feel a bond with Israel and feel disconnected from its history. To the Jews in Israel, this would seem like betrayal of the worst sort, but such is life that distance from history and geography creates a new cultural mindset, even as an old one struggles to live. A few years ago the Parsis of India buried a time-capsule. A few items commemorating their culture. This, they sadly know, will be all that is left of this community that produced some of India's best. Goan Catholics are not a race but collectively they share a unique culture and history. We too know in our hearts that nothing much will be left of us save perhaps for a collection of memories and memoirs. selma Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Re: [Goanet] The Healing Process a Dying Race - Selma
Hi Selma, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and all Goanetters and your families. You break my heart and likely the hearts of your parents and our generation. After all the education we provided our next generation of Goans, all that we can expect them to transmit to the next generation (our grandchildren) is perhaps for a collection of memories and memoirs? Perhaps your generation could learn from us please! Likely like you, we also got more (formal) education than our parents. Yet the older we got, the more we realized that our parents (your grandparents) were smarter than we gave them credit. And we basically transmitted the same values, beliefs and education systems to your generation, that they transmitted to us. Is that too much to ask the current 25 to 45 year old? We keep beating each other about caste preference for marriage. Yet no one decries the growing number of Catholic Goans marrying non-Goans. This of course will hasten the scenario you outline. Of course some are fighting even older battles with their same old ... same old ... sodanche kani. Perhaps this may be to avoid dealing with issues in front of us. Today on Goanet, all that we read from the younger genre is how bad things were. And how much smarter and better and more liberated and forward-looking today's Goans are. And then as you thoughtfully point out, that likely all we will pass down is, perhaps for a collection of memories and memoirs. Yet it does not have to be that way ... does it? Kind Regards, GL -- Carvalho wrote: Goan Catholics are not a race but collectively they share a unique culture and history. We too know in our hearts that nothing much will be left of us save perhaps for a collection of memories and memoirs.
