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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Sunith Velho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well said Mario, I couldn't have put it better > myself ! > > This is what I have been struggling to try and make > people understand (especially those living abroad). > Mario adds: > Sunith, I grew up as a Catholic among the most virulent RSS and Hindu Mahasabha types in Jabalpur and found that they were more impressed by my unconditional respect for their beliefs and my rock solid patriotism that equalled or surpassed theirs at the time, than my "foreign" religion. Consequently, it enabled my family to become a sanctuary for terrified Muslim friends and employees of my family when the periodic Hindu-Muslim riots broke out in my hometown and many Hindus and Muslims we knew became unrecognizable homicidal maniacs overnight. > One couldn't grow up with the experiences I had and seeing the senseless looting and burning and killings I witnessed, and visiting dying classmates in the hospital mortally wounded in the riots, and then tolerate the pissing and moaning about India's future. Along with the mindless socialism that killed the incentive of many of India's highest achievers for 50 wasted years and created a brain-drain that benefitted the west I have seen India at it's worst, and can clearly visualize the actualization of it's long-delayed and far brighter future. > What continues to confound me, however, is the utter lack of civic sense and respect in India for the physical space of the general public and one's neighbors. This manifests itself in the urinating and defecating in public, the spitting and throwing of thrash wherever one can get away with it and the strange transformation from sane to insane as soon as a car door closes behind the driver. > What makes westerners, who are a cut below in intellect, a cut above in basic civic sense? I hope and pray that it is better education, better literacy rates and better economic conditions that will change these disgusting and embarrassing Indian traits as time goes by. > When you return from England a few years from now you will find India seemingly dirtier and more chaotic than you left it, not because India has changed, but because you will have, and your senses will have become acclimatised to the relative cleanliness and civic order of your current environment. > _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org