Agree with Carlos Coutinho. My son's academic trophies still adorn his old bedroom, having left home for another state to run his practice, nearly eight years ago. They mean nothing to him now. All he wants is his patients to be happy with his sevices. In addition to dental practice, he plays in an A-class brass band (he was in three bands when in school - the school's brass band, the schools jazz band and the local Darebin City Brass. In addition, he was in advanced Maths classes, which were held once a week after hours). There are other activities outside of Academia and intelligentsia that most schools, outside India, encourage their students to participate - music, art, drama, varied sports, cooking,etc. As to racial abuse, well, this stuff is everywhere you go. The Macedonians will abuse the Greeks, the Serbs will abuse Croats, the Italians and the Irish will try to put one another down within their own respective communities (equiv of the so-called Goan crab). As you can discern, we see these things in Melbourne, being a fairly cosmopolitan town. But allow me to end with a remark my wife overheard on a tram, made by a Sri Lankan tram driver to a haughty lady who abused him after failing to stop at a tram-stop: "Lady, I'll take you first to England and drop you there before going back to where I came from". Gabriel. PS There was an email doing the rounds in internet space with a list of successful Indians abroad, and what they could have been had they still remained in India.
>________________________________ >From: Carlos Coutinho <carlos.coutin...@gmail.com> >To: goanet@lists.goanet.org >Sent: Friday, 9 November 2012 7:42 AM >Subject: [Goanet] They are just zeroes who do nothing in life > > >What have these foriegn Goan children with all their 'better life' managed > >to acheive? They are just zeroes who do nothing in life, and to add to that > >they have to bear being abused as Pakis, and wogs and coons and other >kindsof humiliations in their foriegn countries. They are not exactly first > >class citizens even if they live in the First World. > > >I feel sorry for them. > >.... > >During your shocking stream of nastiness you have fallen clumsily on your >own bigoted sword. > >Examples of UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Bahamas, Macau etc Goan achievement >across disciplines shouldn’t be hard to find, if you are interested please >do some research. Having just listened to an eloquent London based Goan >academic on Radio 4, I’m sure a man of your ability can find at least one >hero to celebrate. > > >
