Thanks to Jose's instigation, I googled Dinesh. But even on his own website he hasn't given details of his herediatry. Made a more specific search on his goan roots on google and here's one of the sites http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040510/asp/opinion/story_3218559.asp Unfortunately, the site http://goacom.com/saligao_tinto/scroll.htm does not list him as one of the proud sons of Saligoa. Maybe rightly so, for Dinesh is a Assagoakar, and a grandson of Saligoa. But the tinto -- http://www.goacom.com/saligao_tinto/balcao.htm#dinesh -- says it's proud of him. here's what the Telegrapha site says: --- THE GREAT INDIAN CLASS TEST COMMENTARAO / S.L. RAO The author is chairman, Institute for Social and Economic Change [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elitism or meritocracy? In The Karma of Brown Folk, Vijay Prashad examines the model minority that many in the south Asian community in the United States of America believe that they belong to. He argues that American Orientalists (including ideologues like the immigrant from Goa, Dinesh DSouza), have perpetuated the stereotype that south Asian immigrants (unlike the blacks) are a special breed. They are said to demonstrate the finest qualities of hard work and an impatience to succeed. He goes on to paraphrase DSouza as arguing in his book, The End of Racism, that the oppressive conditions of life among black Americans is more a result of their civilizational collapse than of the persistence of structures of racial discrimination. Prashad takes the contrary position that this is a false contrast of racial stereotypes. He says that the attainments of Asians in the US are not caused by natural or cultural selection; rather, they are the result of state selection whereby the US state, through the special-skills provisions in the 1965 Immigration Act, fundamentally reconfigured the demography of south Asian America. ---- Eugene Correia
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