Goanet next meets in Goa: January 7, 4 pm (meeting point: Kala Academy canteen). Goanet founder Herman Carneiro will be there. See you there! ------------------------------
Hi cyberGoans: The following is the message and post form Crystal Hirschorn. This shows what working together can achieve. Credit for this victory should go to Luis Godinho for bringing this issue to the attention of the cyber Goans. Gilbert. -----Original Message----- From: Hirschorn, Crystal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 7:02 AM To: 'Gilbert Lawrence' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: "Luso-Indian ", GOANS or "Mesticos" Dear Dr Lawerence, Thank you for your recent email to the Moving Here webmaster. I would also like to thank you, Luis and other members of the Goa forums for bringing this issue to our attention. The emails we have received are very in depth and give us a better understanding of the Goans and Anglo Indians. I have forwarded your email, Luis's email and others to the Project Manager and Webmaster to see about rewording this information. I hope that members of your forums or yourselves have not taken offense to the information provided on the website. It will be rectified as soon as possible, both the Project Manager and Webmaster will not be back until the 7th of January. Again, thank you all very much for letting us know the background of these groups. Yours sincerely, Crystal Hendrix-Hirschorn Web Content Liaison Officer Moving Here Project Team -----Original Message----- From: Gilbert Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 December 2003 15:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Luso-Indian ", GOANS or "Mesticos" Dear Sir/Madam [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has come to our attention of the oversight in your posting on the webpage http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/angloindians/angloind ians. In the information on this website, you appear to lump / combine "Luso-Indian ", GOANS or "Mesticos". This is a gross mis-representation! Mesticos are descendants of Portuguese-Goan/Indian marriages. Goans are not of mixed blood but rather pure descendant of Asian-Indians who lived under Portuguese rule for close to 500 years. This difference does not mean that one race is superior and the other is inferior. It does mean we all have our heritage and are proud of it. There is no terminology called Luso-Indians which appears to be a direct translation of Anglo-Indians. We hope you will correct this glaring error on your part which affects the description of GOANS in Goa, through out the world and most specially the Goan in the UK. I thank you in anticipation for your attention to this matter. Gilbert Lawrence, MD, DMRT, FRCR. Utica, NY, USA ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail message (and attachments) may contain information that is confidential to The National Archives. If you are not the intended recipient you cannot use, distribute or copy the message or attachments. In such a case, please notify the sender by return e-mail immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message and attachments that do not relate to the official business of The National Archives are neither given nor endorsed by it. ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
