Those of us who lived in the British East African territories, pine about the good old days. Most of us have moved on and wholeheartedly embraced the new environment we are living in. reaching out to all Goans and the Community at large.Some. in-secure in their new envirnment find solace in the company of their old cronies.But the old generation is slowly passing on to the next world. The new generation with fewer hangups will assimilate and the old hang-ups will disappear. Time and tide wait for no man.. It has been my observation that the hang up prevalent among Africanders is less likely to exist where there are smaller Goan communities.We Goans are clannish (birds of a feather flock together), first because we have a common link to Goa, then by where we lived and made a living, then by village, and then perhaps by caste (?) But all these small minded values will dissipate in time.
