Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:23:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Are you displaying the "Goan identity" of making polarizing comments - just to get Goans going? Just in case you did not know that you have this Goan trait.:=)) > Mario responds: > Here we see yet another imaginary "trait" being ascribed to Goans in furthering the emotional claim of a distinctive "Goan identity". > Polarizing comments are part of virtually every democracy which enjoys freedom and free speech as Gilbert should know if he is following the political debate currently under way in the US. Unfortunately, to know this one has to be familiar with other cultures and not be narrowly obsessed only with one's own. > Furthermore, those who pretend that there is such a thing as a definable Goan identity could not answer the question I asked in my post: > http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-April/072397.html > To quote, "Are you going to define a Goan by birth, by the birth of one parent, or both, by being a zhonkar, by a percentage of ethnicity if they come from mixed ethnic families? How?" > The only responses I have seen tried to obfuscate the debate by asking where I live, where I plan to retire, etc. >
