Eugene, Though I agree with you that we should now put this issue to rest, I do not resist the temptation to ask you where you found the place name "Saligoa". As far as I know, it is and has always been "Saligao" (or "Saliganv" in Konkani), never "Saligoa". Excuse me for the question - no hard feelings.
Jorge ----- Original Message ----- From: Eugene Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: jose colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:15 AM Subject: [Goanet]re: dinesh profile on websites > 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 D'Souza), 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 D'Souza 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 > > PS: Let's put this issue to rest. >
