--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Gabriel, surely you know that there are some Goans > > who > > are more Portuguese than the original Portuguese. > > Besides, as you have said, the coconut is a > > wonderful > > nut, which fills our fragrant curries with > > cholesterol. So, what's the problem? > > --- Gabriel de Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was never my problem. In view of your change of > position, I ask, what is yours, all of a sudden? > Sour grapes? :-)) > Mario observes: > Gabriel, You seem to be having comprehension problems. Perhaps you are unaware of what cholesterol can do and coconuts are a heart attack in a nut :-)) > I rarely change positions without new evidence and I have seen no new evidence that Portugal is anything but a lovely, backward, somnolent European country, with friendly, affectionate and generally color-blind people, who nevertheless colonized Goa by force, held onto it for 450 long years, spent virtually nothing on development, exploited the heck out of it, and overstayed their welcome way after the rest of the civilized world had declared the era of colonialization over. Time to move on. > India and Goa may be a mess in your opinion, but it's not Portugal's mess - they left their own mess behind in 1961. You need to read the most recent issue of Newsweek to see why Goa is now part of a budding economic powerhouse rather than a struggling European country. > Now, if they could only address their inadequate roads, transportation, electrical, water and sanitation systems, mindless political corruption and bureaucracy, and get their people to stop throwing garbage on other people's property and stop urinating and defecating in public and spitting all over the place, maybe they will actually make it to superpower status :-)) >
