--- "Frederick \"FN\" Noronha" wrote: > > May I also confess to being a phoney (sic) Goan? > Mario observes: > Did someone else also confess to being a phony Goan? I must have missed it? > Fred writes: > > My son is the first one (in an extended family of > eight or more) to be born in Goa in over 75 years! > I was born half-way around the globe, and believe > any connections to Goa by ancestry are only > incidental, if not accidental. > Mario observes: > Anthropologically speaking, the question of whether you are a Goan by birth or a Goan by choice would also depend, not on precisely where you were born, but the ancestry of your parents, would it not? "Half way around the world" would suggest the "new world", where your ancestry could be anything. The important point for the future is that you seem to be a Goan by choice, which is what really counts in my never humble opinion. >
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