> --- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Many Goans, also migrate, not for economic
> reasons.  Many Doctor's, engineers etc move for 
> better facilities and better to further themselves 
> with more insight and the scope to learn more. Many
> Goans from the U.K. have moved to Portugal and/or 
> Spain for the weather.
> > 
> Mario replies:
> Gabe, do you even read what you put out?  First,  
> you forget that, as an east-African Goan, you come 
> from quintessential "economic migrant" stock. They
> may have been "political emigrants" after they 
> were forced out of Africa, but then transformed 
> themselves into "economic immigrants" to the 
> western countries and Australia.  Otherwise 
> they would have all gone back to Goa.  BTW, I 
> admire the initiative and resilience of east-
> African Goans, but you apparently do not.  I think 
> you owe your own ancestors and their colleagues an 
> apology.  Second, in your continuing attempts to 
> dig yourself out of a hole that you dug in the 
> first place, you seem to forget that the 
> "facilities" that attracted the Goan doctors, 
> engineers, etc. were all economic realities, so 
> they are just as much "economic migrants" as anyone 
> else.
>
> If some Goans migrated from the UK to southern 
> Europe simply for the weather, my best wishes to 
> them if they are retirees.  If not, they 
> are "economic migrants" as well, because they could 
> have moved back to Goa and India, where the weather 
> in southern Europe can be replicated quite easily.
> 
> Have you had enough of this silly game yet?  Or do 
> you want to dig this hole any deeper?


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