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Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goa importing poverty
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 21:01:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Pied Piper of the Goan Construction industry is
> doing a good job of luring India's empty bellied to
> Goa in busloads. At some point Goa has to accept
> that
> it is importing poverty and unfortunately poverty
> has a culture all of its own.
Elisabeth,
One only has to change the word "Goa" for "Canada" and
this is the same argument that people were using in
Toronto fifty years ago. First it was used to try and
stop people from economically depressed areas from
moving to Toronto. Then the same argument was used to
try and prevent people from developing countries
moving to Canada. The argument has proven to be a
poor/bankrupt one.
> The culture of poverty is homogeneous all over the
> world. Poverty is the not the benign wart made
> graceful by Bollywood movies. Poverty is ugly mired
> in
> prostitution, gambling, crime, violence and disease.
> And the unchecked flow of migrants into Goa brings
> with it a tidal wave of this culture.
IMHO, prostitution, gambling, violence and drugs are
the demands of people with money to waste.
> Goans may tell themselves that this workforce is
> needed to build much required infrastructure. The
> sad truth is, this workforce has displaced the
> traditional
> Kunbi and Gaudi by making the daily wage rate so
> negligible that it no longer feeds their belly.
Most countries have a minimum wage policy. I am not
sure if India has such laws. If it does, surely the
employers are choosing the migrant labour because:
1) they work harder
2) for less wages
3) both
> Goans may turn a blind eye when slums sprawl in
> their
> backyards, when rivers pollute with effluents, when
> hills collapse because trees have been felled
> without
> restraint, when pavements become the domain of
> hawkers, when prostitution dens become part of the
> neighbourhood, when crime becomes the norm rather
> than the exception?
>
> Isn't it time we had an honest discussion about the
> unchecked import of poverty into Goa? Isn't it time
> we
> held our politicians accountable? Isn't it time we
> found workable solutions that will not extinguish
> our way of life but rather strengthen it?
Lastly, involving politicians will only worsen the
problem. The Mexican migrant issue in Texas is a prime
example. If anything, Goans should learn from what the
migrants bring with them i.e. a hunger for work.
Mervyn3.0
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