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Hi Newton
Many thanks for your explanation about the Goan crab mentality. Yes, I'd 
like to hear more privately on the above email address please. I would keep 
any "dirty linen" totally private too!
Regards
Cornel
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Subject: An Explaination of 'Crab mentality'.


> Dear Cornel, I have infact very sullenly implide the meaning of the crab 
> mentality in my last letter to Goanetters.
> Anyway, to simplify, here goes:-
> If you put two crabs in a basket (panttulo), and when one stronger crab 
> tries to get out of the basket first, the other tries to bring it down 
> deliberately and intinctively! The result: both stay in.
> (Try it out and see it for yourself - I understand that crabs are very 
> expensive these days; so are the Goans in general ha! ha!). And this is 
> why the Goans are said to possess the "crab mentality".
> May be some other communities too? but I am talking precisely about the 
> Goans in Melbourne.



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