Frederick FN Noronha wrote: This sounds like a class war between the Kenya Goans (or the Diaspora of the 70s) and the rest! All of us would like to shape the Goan community in our own image and likeness. But it's time to acknowledge the diaspora (and community back home) in all its diversity. Times are changing. So are the demographics. If today's Goan migrant to Europe is more comfortable in speaking Konkani (as it seems from the videos), so be it. Can't we accept that?
The "Goan identity" (including the diaspora) cannot be frozen in time. It's a changing and constantly redefined identity. My two paisa worth. Not aiming to offend anyone here... just say what I feel. FN ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FN, Goans in the UK from Kenya are the most successful ones there. In anything, they are to be emulated. Secondly, no one in the west has the time or desire to shape the new arrival. In fact, even when the smarter new arrivals come seeking for leads, s/he is only given guidelines. The immigrant has to shape his own course. Someone sitting in Goa, giving tutelage to Goan imigrants in the UK, is one of the most bizzare notions I have seen. Mervyn
