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South Asian Film Festival in Goa from Fri (June 27) to Mon (June 30)
At Kala Academy, and ESG, Panaji, Goa
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-June/076384.html
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Hi John,
To say that my mother is a Chardi but I'm a Sudra, do you think some Goanetters
who read it are gone doolally to believe that. (Chardi can be a Hindu or Muslim
- ask a Pakistani about caste in the Muslim faith in Pakistan).
You said you are a hybrid, fair enough.
(In biology, hybrid has two meanings. The first meaning is the result of
interbreeding between two animals or plants of different taxa. Hybrids between
different species within the same genus are sometimes known as interspecific
hybrids or crosses). ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid (biology)
I don't know what you are rambling about, Religion is not my bother.
I was referring to mt-DNA, not religion, Jewishness was just an example.
By the way, converting to a Jew by circumcision may be OK for men, but not for
a woman.
Secondly, according to Bangalee Muslim Community, Ullahs are low caste.
If your mother was an Ullah too, than you are a low caste hybrid (does not
matter what religion you belong to).
This topic about caste has been burning for far too long, due to Cornel and Co.
Others are desperately seeking to get attention or their PhD from Goanet, by
keeping the caste argument going for as long as they can, even by indirect
means of saying who married who and came out as what. - Who came out as What?
Did her mother marry a Sudra out of love or just to defy the Goans caste system
or to say to her peers, hey! look what I have produced - a Sudra.
I wish I could get away by offending my mother and her caste she belongs to.
Just because she put her family in it, makes her immune to criticism? Is it?
This argument does not cut mustard with me, besides men and women being equal,
what about the modern discovery of 'Mitochondrial Eve'? (not Adam) not from the
garden of Eden either or Sita from Shree Lanka (get the drift?).
Have these anthropology PhD people wasted their time, AGAIN?
ED.
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John Monteiro said:
Personally speaking, and this is what I do on this forum, I am a hybrid, with
many attachments to the major religions of the world, but have taken for my
spiritual comfort, the Hindu faith for the past 42 years. Since I was 16 in
fact. But this is MY choice, in parentage, my family, the major figure was my
father, albeit an absent one for most of my childhood, his donation to making
me was to make me 50% Catholic, but I was brought up 100% Catholic for the
first dozen years of my life, due to my mother not having a say in how my
education or religious beliefs were to be handled.
To add to this melange, yet one of my father's names (on my birth certificate)
is Ullah. How about that then? I am also a MUSLIM.
Now try and work that one out. Jewish Muslim? Protestant Hindu? Portuguese
Catholic tainted with a little conscience?
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