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16-18, May 2008 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Eddie Just for the record, I want to say how saddened I was by what Michelle Savage had to say about the difficulties she and her husband faced in Goa when it seems clear that they chose to live in Goa with perfect credentials, finance and clean motives. I would not say the same about many others who have 'colonised' parts of Goa and illegally blocked areas to local Goans and about which the Government should act by easily deporting some, when entirely in the wrong, as per the law. I do not wish to repeat many of the points on this theme raised by Selma, Mario, Santosh etc but want to emphasise that it really is time that many fellow Goans got out of their extreme parochialism that determines their mindsets about contemporary change in Goa. I say this whilst fully recognising the effects on ordinary people of significant population change in Goa but want to emphasise that demonising new people seeking a life and contribution to Goa is not the way to do it. It is a fact that virtually all people resident in Goa today came from elsewhere in the recent or distant past and that there will continue to be transitions because of the normal human movement phenomena. We really have a global paradox today in that, in virtually any part of the world, local residents are besides themselves over new settlers in their midst but at the same time, over 200 million (including large numbers of Goans) are currently seeking a life in new countries. This is a fact that, has to be reconciled with, and adjusted to, through intelligent means and endeavours by the Goans in Goa. There is indeed, at least on Goanet, something to say that, constructive and carefully thought-out planning is now becoming more evident and I would want to wish this aspect (rather than xenophobia) every success. Cornel DaCosta, London. --- Eddie Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Confiscate properties of UK Goans and deport them" > > Source: Herald 14 May 2008 at > http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=3950&cid=13 > By Michelle Savage, UK > > Full text: > > Eight years ago, my husband and I decided that we no > longer wanted to deal > with the stress of working in high pressure jobs. > Our children were all > married and half of them had moved abroad. We looked > around and decided to > move to Goa.