Catholic Goans are "vanishing" because they're migrating. They're like matter changing its form!
As far as their "identity disappearing" goes, is this anything new? I think Goans (particularly the Catholics among them) were the first to struggle with the migration reality: loss of language skills, loose links with home, threats to properties back home, fears of being displaced, being squeezed by language and domicile policies, running into the Idi Amins of the world etc, etc... today the rest of the Indian diaspora, including from large states, is facing the same. Instead of seeing a threat in every situation, we need to find new possibilities there. Before cyberspace came along in the mid-1990s, things were far more disconnected. Today, at least you have an ex-Africander sitting in Canada writing a book on Konkani music (together with another Goan in Canada, one in Bahamas, and someone in Goa poking fun and asking since when Malaika became a Konkani song, etc). So what if we disagree vehemently? At least we're getting onto a common page! This is probably happening after centuries. When we reached Goa in the 1960s, it was still a retirement home made up of kiddies and grandparents! FN 2009/11/28 Gabe Menezes <[email protected]>: > RESPONSE: Very nice article indeed; the same way to go for Catholic Goans. > All that will endure is our soropotel and Fenny, along with our surnames! > > As one writer put it here not that long ago, who the bleep cares for Goan > Associations! -- Frederick Noronha :: +91-832-2409490 Writing, editing, alt.publishing, photography, journalism ANOTHER GOA: http://tiny.cc/anothergoa
