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Hi Cornel,
Thanks for your post. From the first paragraph in your recent response (see
below), it would appear that your remarks to the Catholic Cardinal of London
(see below from your prior post) were not really true. You mean to say you
actually "fotti matha" to of all persons the Cardinal of London? Ok, he is not
the Anglican Arch-bishop of Canterbury. Do you know people have gone to the
Tower of London for confusing the Archbishop of Canterbury? Back to your
contradictory statements, this disconnect raises a lot of questions. Like your
friend across the pond, please do not come up with some lame explanations. Or
Bommaim amchem tempar munta "cockamamie excuses".:=)) Did you have this term in
Nairobi?
As to the remainder of your post, it is the same old ... same old.:=))
Additionally, you have shifted from "caste among Goans" to "Gilbert's views
....". Thanks for giving much consideration to my views and for telling me
what I am saying. Yet just because you and a few others make a claim, it does
not become a statement of fact. Remember Goebels, stated (to the effect) "lie
often enough and soon, it will be accepted as truth".
Bhandare gave you a pretty good summary of the issue of caste in India and Goa.
I suggest you stick with that in your IP (International Paper). You in turn
will provide Bhandare ample material for his writings or for the RSS web site.
To what Bhandare said, I may add, for the benefit of the Goan victims, that any
discrimination (caste, religion, economic, social status, region, state of
origin, skin color, hair texture, beauty etc.) is overcome through education,
hard work and job mobility. All Indians have access to all of them. The
Catholic Church has been in the forefront of education irrespective of the
above discriminatory factors.
While caste considerations undoubtedly exists in India, Goa and in the West,
many use this excuse (victims of discrimination) in Goa, India and the Diaspora
for not working hard and progressing up the academic and economic ladder. The
next generation of "lower caste Goans" are / will be the school and college
dropouts, and again we will see national and international papers terming it
discrimination.
Kind Regards, GL
---------------- CORNEL DACOSTA
Let me provide a brief response to you in your mistaken view that somehow
Catholic Goan caste matters afflict places like the UK. Thankfully, they barely
do if at all.
---------------- CORNEL DACOSTA
However, I did get a chance to have a five minute conversation with the
Cardinal in a one to one situation. He expressed much praise, to me, for the
Catholic Goans in London. But I did put him right by disclosing, to his seeming
astonishment, but clear understanding, that many Catholic Goans carried caste
racism in their hearts and minds.
