Dear Kevin Saldanha,
Thank You for those answers.
I believe that MOST Goans who hve settled in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,
Afghanisthan and Pakistan, and in Portugal (pre-1961) will agree with your
children (vide KS 5 infra) and not with you. Accordingly, it is pointless
discussing this any further.
I am glad (for you) that in Canadian forms, you fill out "Indian" un der
"Race"; May be the Canadians do not know that there is no such thing as the
"Indian Race". After all, India is as mixed up racially as the Caribbean.
Everybody and their cousin rode into India and deposited racial material
before departing. Ever heard about the Caribbean Race?
Your answer in KS 4 is quite interesting. You note that you are a "Goan by
culture but an Indian at heart".
But if Goan = Indian, Why is it not simply "INDIAN by culture and and Indian
at heart".
You are welcome to be the original KBCCDWanB (Kenyan Born Confused Canadian
Desi wannabe).
Tell me please which part of India does your "heart" participate in:
1. Do you support Indian charities?
2. Do you and your "heart" participate regularly in Indian festivals like
Diwali, Holi, Dussehra, Navratri, Moharram, Id e Milaad, Christmas, Onnam
etc?
3. Do you and your heart participate in Dandya Rass, Bharata Natyam, Qawali
or even Zatra, Shigmo etc ?
4. Have you and your "heart" spent any time teaching any of the Indian
languages (that is if you know any) to Canadians?
If not ....all you are expelling about "being Indian" when you were BORN in
KENYA, unlikely to have been REGISTERED at the Indian High Commission at
birth as an Indian, do not participate (regularly) in Indin cultural events
......yes....ALL you are expelling is gas.
I wish yo well....
jc
============= please vide KS' answers to JC's queries.
JC 1: How would you classify the Goans in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,
Afghanisthan and Pakistan? Would you call them Indians? Why/Why not?
KS 1: Indians, including those who have chosen to live in Portugal.
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JC 2: When you fill your forms (or whatever) in your present place of
residence, How do you describe yourself? Indian, canadian or kenyan?
KS 2: Nationality, Canadian. Racially, Indian. Kenyan by birth.
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JC 3: When you fill your forms (or whatever) in your present place of
residence, How do you describe yourself? Indian, canadian or kenyan?
KS 3: Nationality, Canadian. Racially, Indian. Kenyan by birth.
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JC 4: Of course, you will advise us that you are holding Indian nationality,
and none other. That would be the only condition under which you, Kevin,
born in Kenya can claim to be Indian first.
KS 4: NOT SO! I am a Canadian citizen, a Kenyan by birth, a Goan by culture
but an Indian at heart.
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JC 5: I will not ask about your children ....They are not participants in
this discussion.
KS 5: .. but they consider themselves Canadian, NOT Indian.
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