Many of us praise the western countries even without seeing the place and study its geography and its people too. We look upon our own mother India as a source of inferiority and low class. Once upon a time we had a craze to buy foreign items. Even our church has foreign saints. Most of the priest while preaching will quote quotes from foreign authors. Many of the priest will make a trip to the west at least once a year and some of them like to settle over there. Many of our goans once they go to the gulf and make money some of them settle abroad .Some of them will even sell their houses. How many of you know Goa and India ? Goa was a land blessed by God. People had abundant rice and vegetable to eat and plenty of fish in the market. Come rain and we could go fishing and get fish free of cost. People were healthy. Some people in the villages did field work, some were busy with fish industries, some with liquor trades either preparing liquor and others selling. Those in the cities did business . Some managed to get jobs. Goa had happy goans and healthy goans. Are we happy today ? some of us went to the gulf and made lot of money . We built mansions .Some of us have gone to the west or foreign countries. Are you happy over there ? If your answer is yes then why do you think of Goa ? Why do you work so hard to meet other goans over the other side of the world ? Why do you have goan clubs over there ? why can't you join Eureopean clubs drink with the European and visit the Europeans next door ? My brother once went to Canada for a short visit. He happened to visit a bar somewhere where the Europeans also visited. As usual he just said " hallo " to a European sitting at the counter next to him. He got so angry that he said to him " do I know you " It was an insult. I am sure many of our goans settled abroad will not agree with this and give so many excuses to defend the statement " O we are all happy. what you write is bakvas. Ask your self " am I happy ? am I earning more than what I would earn in Indian ? do not convert foreign money in Indian rupees and value your status /
