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August 25, 2009 - Goanet's 15th Anniversary
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We once depended on professional match-makers, persons who depended on their
legs for transport, as did most of our folk of the day. They neeeded to be
home by dusk, for fear of several local risks, ghosts being high on the list.
This was the practical limit on outreach that found us limited to a small
gene-pool in adjoining villages alone. I see the effects in the
disproportionate number of cases of bipolar disease and simple schizophrenia,
disorders that do not skip generations. Paulo makes a good case for 'branching
out' ! eric.
--- On Wed, 8/26/09, J. Colaco < jc> <col
12: As young Goans travel and live abroad, they are likely to meet
young people in the communities they live. They are likely to develop
relationships there and marry there. That is beneficial mixing of the
gene pool. Imagine the gene pool if people from Carabolim (where we
hail from) married only others from Carambolim ...and so on.
