Selma, have you come across Frantz Fanon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon Specially 'Black Skin, There
just could be deeper issues here: QUOTE: Frantz Fanon (1925
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925> –1961
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961>) was an author from Martinique
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinique>, essayist, psychiatrist, and
revolutionary. He was perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th
century <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century> on the issue of
decolonization <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization> and the
psychopathology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathology> of
colonization <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization>. His works have
inspired anti-colonial <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-colonialism>
liberation movements
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_liberation_movements> for more
than four decades.
Carvalho wrote:
Where is the question of our own culture being under
threat by the West, when Bollywood Item girls prance
about in shorty-shorts at cricket stadiums gyrating to
the delight of sweaty men, our cosmetic counters are
giving way from the weight of fairness creams, our
girls are told that to be successful they have to be
fair, models on TV are Eurasian prototypes (gone are
the days of heavy-set dusky beauty from the South),
our stores sell DVDs to enhance one's English
pronunciation, our planes are filled to the brim with
European businessmen doing brisk business with their
Indian counterparts and International schools set on
the American-European model of learning abound.
We are a culture obsessed with and thoroughly engaged
the West, so for Goans to sit on the beach and
postulate about being morally superior is most
unbecoming
