Dear Eddie,
That you also subscribe to the view about foreigners is encouraging.
Standing up for the truth is my duty.
Taking the villages of Socorro and Ucasaim in Bardez, one can see the
restoration work of the old houses undertaken by foreigners. Some of them
have beautifully assimilated themselves into the village culture, but some
others have kept aloof. But the same happens with Delhiwallas,
Mumbaiwallahs, Marwadis, Malyalees, Telegus and Gujaratis. For that matter
we could see that happening with Goans in Bombay of the past. All that the
Government needs to be alert when it comes to foreigners is about their drug
links, drug parties and child abuse.
It is the areas like Morjim, Anjuna, Chapora, Arambol that the government
must be concerned about. Here the Russians and the Israelis have so to say
established their own colonies and local governments. That cannot be
accepted at any cost.
It is the Delhi and Mumbai real estate wallahs and politicians that have a
cancerous mentality which has destroyed the local culture and environment in
every part of this country they have stepped into. The Manipuiris did a
fabulous job by regaining the economic controls from the marwadis in the
seventies and eighties.
Hope Goans will open their eyes to invest their time and energies in the
right places.
-Soter
