Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cornel to Gilbert: > On another point, I believe that you are inclined to suggest, or at least, desperately want to believe, that all this evil caste business was a thing of the past, and if prevalent at all today, it is limited to a few. So let me provide you a brief response to this point. Firstly, Catholic Goa absolutely reeks of caste today as it has always done. > > Gilbert to Cornel: Please give me EXAMPLES OF TODAY of the above last statement. Please be sure to draw a cause and effect relation. No long explanations needed!
Mario adds his 2 cents: My personal experience is that many Catholic Goans still have a strong preference for their "own caste" when it comes to their children's marriage partners, to the extent that there are still children who go along with this stuff in India or in the diaspora. We have actually gotten calls from Catholic Goans who live in India, Canada, the UK and the US who will call and ask us about a certain young man or woman we may know and the caste issue has often come up, sometimes overtly and sometime in subtle ways like wanting to know which village in Goa the family is from. They never call back after my 15 minute tirade asking them to first make up their minds whether they are Catholics or not before asking us such questions. I personally know a family in India where one son married a very accomplished girl from another caste, and she is not welcome in the parent's house, even after over 5 years of marriage. Another son has married within their caste and is welcome. These hypocrites have also welcomed a third son's wife, WHO IS EUROPEAN. They made the mistake of calling me to inquire about someone for another one of their children, and needless to say, after I was done with them, we are no longer on speaking terms. I am not aware of any circumstance other than marriage where the issue of caste is relevent among Catholic Goans.
