Re: [Goanet] A GOAN IS A PERSON WHO HAS ROOTS IN GOA

2008-04-24 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
Hi Gilbert I am utterly confused by your statement below. Pray will you explain what you mean? Cornel --- Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... if all these foreign cultures who > came to Goa "admired" us, they would ask us to join > them. The last time I checked, none did so.:=))

[Goanet] A GOAN IS A PERSON WHO HAS ROOTS IN GOA

2008-04-21 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Aires, Very good article. You have an excellent short list of "manifestations". I am glad several native Goans have stepped-to-the-plate in being arch-advocates of a "Goan identity". Preserving one's ethnicity is not rocket science. People (diaspora and native) have done it for millenn

Re: [Goanet] A GOAN IS A PERSON WHO HAS ROOTS IN GOA

2008-04-20 Thread Arthur Rodrigues
Dear Aeris, I read your article with interest and I would like to know one thing, Why! Is it that those whose parents have setteled in Pakistan and their children would like to visit Goa or settle there have so much problems, although they have relatives living there. Arthur S Rodrigues.

[Goanet] A GOAN IS A PERSON WHO HAS ROOTS IN GOA

2008-04-20 Thread airesrod
Roots can be established by birth, by ancestry or by domicile. Migration to Goa is not sufficient to acquire roots if the person does not have affinity to Goan culture, language and tradition. On the other hand a person can be born and resident outside the State and acquire roots by subscribing