One of the netters suggested that there's always someone on the net to bring another fellow Goan down. If this is a reference to me, let me point out that I had posed a query. I just wanted to know if Dinesh is a Goan, and that's all. As I said, I was wrongly informed. Just for curiousity (as it does not matter to the core issue), if Dinesh's mom is 'east Indian.' The lady who informed me was of "east Indian origin". My point is why would she me this wrong information. Second, as vivian too has noted that some of us may be suffering from 'crab mentality'. This is not the issue here. As Mario says, it should have opened a debate on dinesh's politics and his writings. If i remember correctly, dinesh shunned away from a debate called by Black scholars after his book on race appeared. I would enjoy such a debate and would take part in it vigorously. However, I don't remember much from the two books I read (I didn;t read his book on America). Besides, most of my notes are in Canada and I am in the middle east. But I was fear that it could take the turn such as Mario vs Cornel we saw recently on the list. Frankly, i didn't follow it. I haven't given much time to reading all posts on goanet since i have been in the middle east, unlike i used to when i was in canada. I see too many anti-american books at bookstores. Reading Fareed Zakaria provides the other side of the argument, one that people like dinesh hang on to. In conclusion, let me say i have no intention of bringing dinesh down. Indeed I am happy for him for his success. But ideological I can't be happy on his projection and promotion of the Conservative agenda.
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