I respectfully disagree. If you see a sign outside a pub that says No Goans Allowed and you got in because you didn't look like a Goan, would you go around telling non-Goans not to go in or you yourself would take a stand and not go in?
Sometimes institutions, organisations and countries have to be held accountable and boycotted for the injustices they help perpetuate. There are several notable boycotts that helped raise awareness and forced the companies, organisations or countries to reassess their policies. The famous boycott of goods made in S. Africa, the boycott of companies that use child-labour, the boycott of magazines that feature models with real fur, the boycott of "blood diamonds" from Sierra Leone, the banning of hard alcohol advertising on television, the banning of cigarette advertising that specifically targets children. Sometimes you change society from the grassroots, at other times you make bold statements that highlight the situation and leads to its re-examination. Mario's idea of writing to the newspapers is a good one but I don't expect too many writers in Goa to take it up, since one can't bite the hand that feeds the golden goose, to mix my proverbs. Selma ------------------------------------------ --- Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cecil thinks: > It's easy to blame newspapers and church authorities > and 'the system', > rather than blame ourselves. If you see an unethical > advert for a product > or a service you would boycott the advertiser and > not the medium that > carried the advert. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
