--- On Fri, 6/6/08, Ana Maria de souza-Goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why does everyone think that anglo indians have to be fair.
> Selma remarked
> that a dusky friend of hers called herself Anglo-Indian. I
> lived four years
> in Bangalore and knew a lot of Anglos. 90% of them were
> dark, very few were
> fair.
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Ana Maria,
My point is not whether they are fair or dark-skinned. My point is they are not
first-generation bi-racial. Most of them are possibly second to third
generation bi-racial and some can't even trace exactly where or how. So, if we
do have special reservations or special status (term du jour in India), then
how are they going to prove their antecedents? Just calling dahl, dol does not
an Anglo make.
In my family too, we have a lot of fair-skinned green-eyed monsters. Whether a
bottle of Portugual's cheap Port Vinho had something to do with it or whether
Punjab's best ganga had something to do with it, we don't know or care. We are
Indian Goans and that's good enough for us.
selma
