Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:45:11 +0530 From: Antonio Menezes <[email protected]>
During my school days in Lyceum there were quite a number of students with mestiso background. All of them however, resented on being called mestisos but insisted they were descendentes meaning of pure Portuguese pedigree. Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:17:22 -0800 (PST) From: Carvalho <[email protected]> I remember reading somewhere, can't remember where, maybe Charles Boxer, that at the time of liberation in 1961, there were only a few mestisos left in Goa. I suspect after 1961, most of them left for Portugal. I do know one or two in Goa, but they are happy to be Goan and nothing else. Mario observes: Made to worry about a pedigree they had no control over shows the narrow-minded intolerance of the society these children and their families lived in. Shame on the society that made them feel inferior. Selma wrote: the UK is running programmes on race and one of the programmes hypotheses that mixed-races have a higher chance of success in life. Mario observes: I find this hypothesis equally absurd. Making judgments on entire groups, however defined, is intellectually vapid and counterproductive. In my opinion, success in life depends on the individual, helped or hindered by their social surroundings and family dynamics. Society would be far better of if everyone focused, not on groups based on accidents of birth, but on individual human beings and their uniqueness, on opposing discrimination against individuals for any reason, and on helping every individual to be the best they can be.
