2009/10/21 Mario Goveia <[email protected]>: > As far as I can tell, Christians never exceeded 50% of the population in > Goa.
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:44:04 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> I think you have your facts grossly wrong on this. Mario responds: You "think"??? Since when does your "thinking" make me grossly wrong? Why don't you check out my assertion that Christians in Goa never exceeded 50% of the population, and let us know? Fred wrote: Though I don't believe that people share a common interest just because of a shared religion, or that religious identities are the only identities we have. Mario responds: Fred, if you had taken the time to read the post by Marcus D'Souza about Christian dominated areas, you would know he wasn't talking about "common interest just because of a shared religion". He was talking about "Christian dominated areas" now being lost to "Hindu domination". My response was that Goa only "seemed" like a Christian dominated area because of the Christian's who had invaded it and occupied it for 450 years. We know for sure this benefited Goan Christians far more than Goan Hindus as a generality. Fred wrote: Likewise, numbers alone are not necessarily the only indicator of influence ... (e.g. number of Indian-Americans in the US -- 1% of the total population; Parsis in India about a hundred thousand or so, or Saraswat Brahmins in Goa). Mario responds: These communities hardly matter when it comes to electoral politics, though they make be able to buy some undue influence among certain politicians.
