Cecil Pinto wrote:
Cecil:
You are mixing caste with class. What makes you think there are no
Brahmins working as domestic workers?
Good point.
Cecil:
How exactly are you guilty of it? You are of Sicilian origin
(Caucasian). You do not have any Goan ancestors (to the best of my
knowledge) and your connection to Goa is by marriage. You have never
resided in Goa for any great length of time, so don't even have a
"Goan" status by reason of domicile. Yet you choose to post on this
forum and in fact are an Administrator here. You are not a Goan by any
reckoning and choose to marry a Goan and 'socialise' and contribute to
GoaNet. You are definitely not guilty of preferring people like
yourself. In fact quite the opposite.
Cecil, it's true that Ariosto and I have different ethnic ancestors and
different skin colors, but it doesn't necessarily follow that we're not
at all alike. The "whole" of Ariosto is made up of much more than his
color or his village, just as I am. We are very alike, I assure you, we
very much have the same likes and dislikes, we like to pass our "spare"
time (hah!) involved in the same activities. Why do you assume that our
"selves" are bound up in, and limited to, our parents and villages?
Of course that fact that you make radical observations about Goa and
Goans, without fully following the nuances of what is being discussed,
is amusing.
Radical?? Are you saying that I'm not at all allowed to make
observations because I'm white? How very open-minded you are, my dear
Cecil! I'm not a daughter of Goa, no doubt, but Goa is very much a part
of my life, just as Sicily and Sicilians are a part of Ariosto's life.
We were in Sicily last month and we took a picture of the Via Ludovico
Ariosto in Alcamo, "my village." In Sicilian we have a saying, "Nuvatri
semu nati fidanzati." We were born engaged (to one another). :-))
Cheers!
Viviana
