I don't agree with this class-based slur against the people of "Siridao and Agacaim". On what basis?
That they may be sons and daughters of the soil, and less burdened with the overload of a formal education and "knowledge"? Or that they are more recent migrants to the Western world, including NZ, maybe lower down on the pecking ladder? And then, what do we have against "Kiwi farmer background reporters"? Either they do their job well, or they don't. Background is immaterial here. Besides this, the current crisis in the media makes people do strange things too! Click-bait headlines is just one of these. So, I don't agree with you, João Paulo. Let us not forget that even supposedly educated Catholic migrants to East Africa often believed that "Goa is Catholic". In their case, the only "excuse" they had was that the Goan diaspora in that part of the world (definitely till the 1960s) was 99% Catholic... and that is all they saw. Nobody has a monopoly over being ill-informed. Or even not wanting to let the facts come in the way of a good story and/or headline. FN On Wednesday 13 December 2023 at 03:52:11 UTC+5:30 Joao Paulo Cota wrote: When village people, possibly Siridao and Agacaim meetup with Kiwi farmer background reporters, this is the result. Sheer ignorance. That expression probably originates around China, where, when I was once on a teaching assignment at Shanghai, I was told at a dinner that 'the only thing the Chinese do not eat with four legs are the tables'. The only consolation is that that newspaper has a microscopic circulation and most of them must had been recycled on their fish and chips takeaways. Worth writing to the editor to correct the statistics though... before it is cloned elsewhere on another website... and then becomes a 'fact'. -- 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/60af4ff3-d95e-4337-8ad1-a1844337bcd1n%40googlegroups.com.
