Well said Fred, once again!
I would have written and expressed likewise; and have said so, with another
headline.
Cheers.
Nasci Caldeira
Mlbourne.
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet]Re: Caste adverts
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:53:52 +0530
Dear GL:
Are you deliberately/unintentionally misquoting me, or have I expressed
myself so poorly, that I've confused my stand over the many posts made
on this subject?
My problem here is not with "disparity" but with a near-racist system,
that keeps you trapped in a water-tight container for life and across
generations, depending on accidents of birth.
It determines where the glass ceiling blocks you still in contemporary
Goa. It sometimes determines whom you marry, who votes (or doesn't) vote
for your, creates powerful and distorting chains-of-influence that ruins
any possibility of economic efficiency, and causes a whole set of market
imperfections which should be unacceptable even in a capitalist
conception of the world. No wonder the Bahujans in the MGP were out to
usher in the capitalist revolution in the 'sixties, ably supported by
national and international forces. It also makes sense, in hindsight, to
see some politicians attempt to dismantal Goa's semi-feudalism, even if
some influential forces might have a different conception of things.
Above all, it leaves large sections of people carrying scars for life,
based on perceived (and, as George points out, often invalid and
unscientific) feelings of superiority and inferiority.
FN
