Ah! Precisa de saber falar em Português e Konkani (o ingles não serve) – não é? Perguntar ao BC – talvez tenha melhor solução para sua pergunta – ha! ha!
Seriously, Goa has been diluted so much by the influx of people from the rest of the country into a relatively under-populated area that it would be nigh impossible to reverse the situation, even for the sake of argument. Forget it. So, stay rested Sr. António Menezes, and, talking out of my personal experience, be assured that outside of first-generation emigrants who reminisce of Goa, the second-generation might call themselves Goans but they have now so much integrated into the fabric of their parents' adopted lands -- be it Mumbai, Kolkata or Timbuktoo -- that they do not know what Goa really is (check Indian depiction of Goa in their travelogues and Bollywood movies); those of the second-generation born outside India, I doubt that they would like to return back to their parents' roots to settle down after their rather unsavoury visits to India as tourists. PS I know a young Mumbaikar of Goan descent here in Melbourne fresh out of Mumbai, and she knows her Konkani as well as to play all the Goan Mandes and Dulpods in the Goan style (we have a grand musical time when we meet). I also know a young Goan fresh out of Goa who knows no konkani and sadly does not know how to sing (let alone Mando). Quite a "cultural" puzzle, isn't it? ----- Original Message ---- > From: Antonio Menezes <ac.mene...@gmail.com> > To: goanet <goa...@goanet.org> > Sent: Sat, 21 August, 2010 9:05:22 PM > Subject: [Goanet] Are you a Goan ? Can you prove it ? > > Goans started emigrating en masse to the other parts of India ( mainly to > Mumbai ) from > 1890s onwards. By now there should be at least fourth or fifth generation > of Goans in > Mumbai who are very proud of themselves as Goans and most of whom have no > contact > with Goa in the form of land ownership or family connections. And so are > some Goans > who are settled down in the U.K. , Canada, USA and Australia and who find > themselves > in similar situation. > > Jews had been away from their homeland Israel for nearly two millenia and > were settled > mostly in Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union. When the time came > in the late > forties for them to emigrate back , their only badge was their religion - > Judaism. They did > not accept converts or children born to outsiders ( one parent being > jewish) as Jews. The > only proof was the certificate given to them by the Rabbi of the Synagogue > to which they > belonged. > > Similar situation in the sense of emigrating back to Goa may never take > place. But for the > sake of argument how will a Goan say, from Canada, UK or Mumbai for that > matter prove > to be a genuine Goan ? Religion ( Roman Catholicism ) and Iberian surnames > may not be > sufficient as there are others in India with similar data like the East > Indians and Mangaloreans. > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > ISSUES BEING DEBATED: In East Africa, despite colonialism, > the British afforded the Goan a sliver of a socio-political > voice. Read *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho. > Soon to be available in Toronto. Pp 290. Via mail-order from > goa1...@gmail.com http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ISSUES BEING DEBATED: In East Africa, despite colonialism, the British afforded the Goan a sliver of a socio-political voice. Read *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho. Soon to be available in Toronto. Pp 290. Via mail-order from goa1...@gmail.com http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
