--- Kaza Moyo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Goanetters ! > > Just to say how much I enjoy this forum ! I'm > originally from Goa, but practised for quite a > while in the UK. I notice quite a few old friends & > colleagues here. Hi Jose, hello Gilbert, viva > Santosh ! I've been away on holiday for a while at > the Aguada, but am back now - feel free to drop me a > line anytime or post any Goacentric psychiatric > query online ! > Mario writes: > Dr. Moyo, Welcome. Your surname is one I have not heard before as coming from Goa, but one lives and learns. > Having grown up an Indian, and now a US citizen of Goan ancestry, I will leave any "Goacentric psychiatric" queries to others, but, as a wild guess, some of our friends may qualify for some "Portuguese-centric" counseling, not having gotten over, after 45 long years, the demise of Portugal's prized "Overseas Province" :-)) > You should see the endless weeping and gnashing of teeth about how Goa was "invaded" by those dastardly Indians in 1961, and is being messed up by a booming economy and the chaos and trauma of Goans having to deal with all those nasty "Indians" streaming in to buy property and do work that Goans will not do for the same price. Oh, for the good old days! > GOA FOR GOANS!! is one recent King-Canute-like rallying cry. > I have tried to tell them that the Portuguese - whom I love and admire for being affectionate and truly racially neutral people - are not coming back, and they should get on with their lives, but do you think they will listen to me? > Perhaps you may have more luck in getting them to calm down with a trenchant essay on the subject :-)) >
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