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Comparing the social practices, values and living in Goan villages to the
"West", it would appear the Goans in the western Diaspora are the ones "seeking
to be validated by the white man" and doing a lot of "redundancies". In fact
our very living in the West is to imitate White society. Gandhi left London
and "White South Africa" for India and so did many Westerns who to came to Goa
and India.
To compare and link social and religious practices in terms of White and
Non-White thinking, reflects the chip on the posters' shoulders. Jesus himself
was very mid-Eastern. Likely we living in the West are the ones that may need
and benefit from basic traditional values and "education". For western
Diaspora Goans to accuse and chastise native Goans for wanting to be "validated
by the white man" is really comical (classical Goan humor).
My point is there are good values in every society and system. It is for the
"truly smart" to choose from various sources what really works to make an
enduring society. Native and village Goan society have proven its endurance
over 3000 years, including 700-800 years of Muslim and later Portuguese
colonial rule. Can Diaspora Goan society achieve that endurance for even a
fraction of that?
Kind Regards, GL
------------- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
They don't have anything to gain by being validated by the "white man", nor
have they read clever books to realise the redundancy of what they are doing.
They are simple people who are trying to propitiate God to intervene in the
helplessness of their lives.
Until they are transformed by education, they will continue to do so, but we
can't assign motives to their veneration.
