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Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:28:25 -0400 From: "pcheryl" <[email protected]> Blame no one but your self for the misery you feel you are in . If many Goans are moving out , it is because of lack of employment opportunities , remember the world is no longer an agrarian economy it was in the nineteenth century. You continue to bring the corrupt to power , you fail to oppose them , then don't lament and blame others for what you are responsible for. My family lost a lot when the Portuguese were driven out of India . Hence today I am only an Indian & have no hard feeling towards any one . Your destiny is in your hands , there is no substitute to hard work and your duty . Mario observes: Cheryl, You are a true Indian patriot. Though, like many Goan Catholics and a few select Hindu business families, your family benefited from the presence of the Portuguese occupiers, you have accepted with considerable maturity, dignity and grace that that was a different time and place that had to change with the changing world and the spread of freedom and democracy among previously European colonies. Of course Goa has always been Indian by history and culture. Anyone who denies this would be as delusional as the Portuguese sophistry that they could have an "overseas province" in a foreign land. And the fact that Goans have been accepted across India and have distinguished themselves in all walks of life is simply undeniable. I commend you on your astute observation about Catholic Goans clinging to the un-Christ-like pretense that they belonged to the castes of their Hindu ancestors when it suited them, while at the same time, identifying with the casteless Portuguese occupiers when it suited them. If the Portuguese had had the foresight and the good will and the basic "akkal" to see that the world had changed, they could have turned Goa over to Goans, Goa could have been an independant and autonomous multi-cultural mini-country like Nepal. Would it have been any different than the chaotic Goa of today? I think it would have, but who really knows. Certainly it would have enabled Goa to control its population better than they can as part of India, which seems to be a major concern on a few Goanetters. Unfortunately, many native Goans either cannot or choose not to compete with the non-Goans who have discovered the beauties and benefits of this tropical paradise, and are getting overshadowed in economic matters on their own home ground. Instead, the Portuguese were trying to be greedy and too clever by half. They misread the mood of the world, and the rest, as they say, is history.
