Does a territory / people have to be independent nation to have cultural symbols? May be it could to lead to it, if the uniqueness of cultural symbols is politcally exploited! That certainly happened with many countr= ies / people whose cultural uniqueness led to their independent nationhood? I wonder what comes after what. Manohar Sardesai's poem "Sobit amchem G=F5y= " celebrates what I would consider Goa's environmental / cultural uniquenes= s. Goan konknni "mhon'nneo" could be a source of its cultural symbols. These are not Goan Catholic diaspora creations!=0D Teotonio R. de Souza=0D ---------------=0D =0D William da Silva worte:=0D =0D What does Goa want to be its distinctive cultural heritage? As if it were= an=0D independent nation? There is lurking in some Diaspora nostalgia for Goa a= nd=0D its culture, a tendency to treat Goa as if it were 'an independent nation= ,' =0D at least emotionally and notionally. This is generally nourished by Catho= lic=0D Goans, many of whom have in Diaspora a fragmented use of Konkani language and=0D literature.=20
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