The reason I have named my previous post, ‘Aghô Milagrin, Londokarancheo dhiriô chollotai mugo’ is because there seems to be an ongoing battle between the Africanders, people of Goan origin settled in various former colonies of Africa now migrated to England and the new entrants the European Union Goans who have recently moved to London in search of a better living.
Sadly instead of celebrating the much spoken about Goaness or Goemkarpon, the Africanders are extremely unhappy at the arrival of the EU Goans. They consider them crass, their language skills poor, ‘they only speak Konkani’, ‘they celebrate every Feast’ and horror of horrors they spend money to bring Teatrs all the way from Goa or Bombay to London. Our Africanders then climb the moral horse and assert they have never collected Social Security. Come now, I know of Africanders who have and continue stay in Council Flats for decades without doing a stroke of work. The Africanders claim to be Goans; one even said to me I am a 400% Goan. Of course I said we could now speak Konkani... The EU Goans on the other hand embrace their Goemkarpon without even being aware that there is something called Goemkarpon or Goaness, they are Goans. Their life reflects Goa in every aspect of their being. Not for them the duality of being neither Goan nor British. https://zorotmorotgoesmyvillage.blogspot.com/2019/07/agho-milagrin-londokarancheo-dhirio.html
