--- Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I find it amusing and sometimes mildly irritating > that people who themselves have availed the > hospitality of a alien country as immigrants would > now grudge the same opportunities to their fellow > citizens, let alone foreigners. I call that > hypocrisy. > > Every Indian be it a bihari or a malyali or a > bengali has right to settle anywhere in india > except kashmir I believe, and a right to take part > in the due electoral process of the land which > includes the right to vote. > > IF people are so concerned about the dilution of the > goan values as well as drop in the number of goan > voters they should leave their adopted homelands and > queue for voting cards alng with the biharis and > other assorted ghantis > Mario replies: > Vivek, Please calm down and let's not make this personal. > To be fair, Elisabeth is not a committed American immigrant as I am, but a temporary one, and does care deeply about Goa in my never humble opinion. > She will soon be coming home to run against Rane under the Goa Suraj banner, but probably not under her own [inside joke]:-)) America's loss will be Goa's gain. School administrators will tremble and undisputed feticide will become fair and square in all the land:-)) > But seriously, besides the hand-wringing and hair-pulling, I have no idea how one artificially restricts economic immigrants within a country's borders. Goans have been migrating to all corners of India and the globe even during the halcyon Portuguese days when milk and honey, but not tap water, were flowing freely along with the fenny and sorpotel. What do the Biharis and Malyalis see in Goa that so many Goans do not? > In such situations the aboriginals have to suck it up, realize that there is a real need for reasonably priced labor, and compete. > King Canute tried the other method, and it didn't work for him either. > >
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