Hi Cornel, I think your out pour of love for your bharat is undone by still carrying a Portuguese name Filha da Costa. In your own words would that not be slavish attachment to the historical interlude. You now sound more like a Bajrang Dal on Goanet, or is the coat changing from your commie leanings?
Still no answer on ethnic indians? A bharati like you should have had it on the tip of your tongue innit mate? As for studying in the UK the whole world is attracted to GB. There are students from every developed country and the third world. So this is not news. And for your information the Portuguese in Canada and UK are mainly from the islands of Azores and Madeira who were basically abandoned by Salazar. Things are chainging for these islands, and today they are top tourist destinations. As for the standings the white brits are themselves behind the Asians - so what do you have to say about this? What does a potential giant have to do with Portugal? There are your ghantis brother and sister pis*ing and shiteing in large numbers in Goa. Goans want to see the end of this. Best wishes BC Hi Bernado A response to my post may not "merit a scribble" according to you. Further, you then request a definition of Indian ethnicity. However, I took you on re your contention that there was a connection between Goan Portuguese passport holders and a-level results. I prefer to stay with this contention of yours that you make but seem unable to defend. As to the concept of ethnicity, definitions are widely available in texts and the internet and I may spell this out to you when I have more time. At its simplest, you and I are ethnic Indians. I recognise this but you seem to have a slavish attachment to things Portuguese and despise your own inheritance and heritage that is historically Indian, notwithstanding the 450 year Portuguese interlude in Goa. Those Goans who are now students in the UK are classified ethnically as Indians and definitely not Portuguese as you seem to prefer. If you knew better, you would know that the Indians do excellently educationally in the UK and are only narrowly beaten by the ethnic Chinese but whose numbers are small. In contrast, the research on the Portuguese in the UK (as workers) indicate that they have the lowest education levels of all ethnic minority workers in the UK. Thus, can you not see that many a sensible Goan who lands in Portugal craves to enter the UK for better educational and employment opportunities that are not as extensively available in Portugal? I suggest that their Portugese attachmnet is zilch in most cases but this is rather unlike your attachmnet to former Portuguese colonial rule in Goa as though there was something glorious then, rather than brutal Portuguese dictatorship in our own life times. Believe you me, Bernardo, I personally experienced some of that brutality and had previously written about it on Goanet. Interestingly, we know that when some Goans went to Toronto, Canada, the children informed the teachers that they were not Indians but Portuguese. This embarrased their teachers no end but this scenario changed once the Goans there discovered that they were predominantly middle class but by saying they were Portuguese, they were effectively aligning themselves with the working class lowly educated and poor Portuguese in Toronto. If you knew facts such as the above and that India is a potential economic giant compared to Portugal, you might perhaps revise some of your thinking about that despicable word you use--"ghantis" for my fellow Indian brothers and sisters. By all means, do criticise Indian administration, bureaucracy and corruption in Goa but please stop fooling yourself that you are not ethnically Indian in Macau and that you will take your Indian ethnicity with you if you are forced out of Macau as a foreigner and then transport yourself to Portugal. Regards Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com