Re: [Goanet]Caste adverts.

[Dr. Ambert Pimenta]

Well said Fred . A lot of Goanetters are silent on a lot of matters and on 
this one particularly you wont hear too much besides the regular guys ..do u 
know why ? I was a vociferous poster on this forum once ( from 1999) and all 
that came back was personal attacks. Is this how we want this forum to go 
ahead. With 9,000 members and about 50 regular posters do you think the rest 
of us are silent cause we dont want to add our two cents to a discussion  or 
because we dont want our dirty laundry to be washed in public as it happens 
so very often on Goanet.
If someone wants to say he belongs to a particular caste i dont see any 
problems with that . We can never choose to whom or which caste/religion we 
are born to. Does this mean we should forget who we are and where we come 
from ? Why not say I am an Indian before I am a Goan ? Thats because we as 
Goans are a very different lot of people and we identify ourselves with 
Portuguese backgrounds and cultures.
I think too much has been said about this issue ... its time for everyone to 
stop picking on each other for such silly matters.Dont make this forum a 
platform for you to hide behind a computer screen and blurt out whatever you 
comes to your mind , I'm sure you wouldnt say more than two words if we were 
to sit for a face to face discussion !

Dr. Ambert Pimenta
http://www.goadentist.com