--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Salus, > I have cousins who left Africa for a better place. > Some settled in Goa (they returned to GOA because > of political conditions in Africa); the > others migrated to Canada (they went there purely > for economic reasons). If not for economic reasons, > they would have ended up in Goa. > > Gabe Menezes wrote: > ........In my opinion Mario was an economic > migrant. > Salus wrote: > Well Gabe, the subject and issue aside, I firmly > believe that every Goan who is out of Goa is an > economic migrant, and that includes you, whether you say or believe otherwise. Its no shame. > Mario adds: Carlos, and Salus, I think Gabe was trying in some puerile fashion to insult me by calling me an economic migrant, but did not realize that his east-African Goan ancestors were economic migrants themselves. Finding himself in a hole he has since been thrashing about in an attempt to get out of the hole he dug for himself.
Common sense says that every emigrant is an "economic migrant" at some level, with the possible exception of retirees. I find it amusing that some people are creating rationales for emigration to suit the notion that one kind of migrant is superior to another kind. For example, one poster said he was a "scientific migrant", which he then pretentiously described as an inferior kind, and someone else said that doctors and engineers were some other kind of migrant because of superior facilities in some place which enhanced their work, which translates right back into economic conditions were better wherever they were emigrating to, i.e. economic migrants. The fact is that east-African Goans were the quintessential economic migrants, who were then ejected for political reasons and went wherever they had to for economic reasons. The originals were all resolute and resilient people, filled with positive initiative, unlike some of their descendants. Someone should tell Gabe to crawl out of his hole, dust himself off and find a more sensible insult than the one he got bogged down in.