JP, This itself does sound a bit racist! Personally, I think racism is not about colour... but about power. If, somehow, Africa was the richest part of the planet tomorrow, we might have all been buying *Get Rich Pigmentation Quickly* remedies to change our own skin colour. We are all racist in a way. To my dismay (but not surprise), I found myself enjoying this video (with 12,000 others): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul49i2Tn90Q For the sake of our non-Konkani speaking friends, I will not venture to translate or explain the language or nuances here. >From my own little-informed perspective, I was quite surprised how Antonio Costa stayed on for a relatively long term in office in Lisbon, with hardly any jibes being taken in the mainstream about his ethnicity or origins. This probably happened in some fringe channels, but one didn't hear much of it in these parts... Correct me if wrong. In Goa too, our former rulers seem to have got more worked up over 'assimilation', language and class, rather than race or ethnicity. We keep faulting the Portuguese for having "tolerated" caste in places like Goa, but I suspect quite a few of us too were also glad to have that in place. FN
On Friday, 24 November 2023 at 00:20:22 UTC+5:30 Joao Paulo Cota wrote: >From my experience in growing in Portugal, I have found that the racism in the urban areas is pure racism, which is minimal anyway, but the racism experienced in the countryside is basically due to sheer ignorance of the mostly uneducated there. It has improved. What I fail to understand is that many Italians and Spanish are so dark skinned and yet they are very racist towards others. Italy must step up import of mirrors so that these people should see who they really are... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/d5452c36-5379-4403-95b2-4a440530f392n%40googlegroups.com.
