Tony D'Sa wrote: > That may be. But you black skinned American/ Britisher/ Australian/ > Canadian just try buying property in a WASP only locality. Racial > prejudice may not be overt but it is still there. You are still > a 'second class' citizen no matter how you console yourself.
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:55:58 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar <[email protected]> For me, even more than the above, what is important --- what have you done as a citizen in your adopted country? Have you fought injustice? Or did you just grab the opportunities that those countries provided to you as a citizen? Mario responds: A lot. Yes. No. Besides, Tony's statement above is provably false when applied to America. Residents of the other countries can speak for themselves. Samir wrote: I am sure there are NRGs who have been conscientious citizens of their own adopted countries and have contributed to change in their adopted countries; and I am also sure they will not talk of disparingly of Goa and India, because they know what it takes. Mario observes: I disagree. To not disparage corruption is to accept it. To not criticize the vast improvements that need to be made in India and Goa MOST OF WHICH ARE NOT EVEN BEING ADDRESSED BY THE LOCAL RESIDENTS would be doing a great dis-service to India and Goa. Do you think the pictures by Rajan and Joe were shot in a film studio? Being IT specialists and suppliers of low cost goods and services contracted by and designed in the developed countries is hardly enough, though it's a good first step. Harming India and Goa is the bribery and corruption and even goonda-giri at all levels, rampant tax cheating, civic carelessness and public behavior that is rarely seen in any developed country, and if seen is roundly condemned if not prosecuted and the culprits brought to justice. No one in a leadership position is addressing any of these issues as far as I can see anywhere in India. In Goa, everyone is scared of the goonda-politicians. I have personal knowledge of at least one of them brazenly helping a crony steal ancestral property in my own village in Goa by using forged documents to transfer interest in the title to the property and then threatening the relatives to keep quiet or risk physical harm. How else do you think Goa has become such a mess? What good is a legal system when they can intimidate people to be quiet? Pointing fingers outward and trying to disparage those NRGs who are trying to help, VOLUNTARILY, AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE IN TIME AND MONEY, does NOTHING to help either India or Goa. "All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - attributed to Edmund Burke but never found in his writings.
