Thanks Gabriel for your post. Goanet benefits from from various points of view.
Roland. On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Gabriel de Figueiredo<[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not quite sure what "racist" impressions these Goans got, and where. > > There are more Sri Lankans here in Melbourne than Indians, so much so Indians > are mistaken for Sri Lankans (rather like Indians are taken for Pakistanis in > UK). Also, a number of Indians are of Fijiian origin. And there are more > Greeks (the greatest concentration of Greeks outside of Athens, as someone > put it), Italians, Chinese and Vietnamese than anglos in Melbourne. And > today its been reported that there's some 10,000 (yes that many) Afghan/Sri > Lankan and other refugees waiting in Malaysia to be "boated" illegally to > Australia, in addition to hundreds others already that have arrived here > illegally this year alone. So you decide on all the "racism" you want.
