Thanks for reading my post and responding. Those who study and report on the past can best help us by providing useful tips (based on the past) on how to improve the present. Or else the researchers are merely churning the pot, using others as a foot-stool to stand-on and not being too intellectual.
Unfortunately as you suggest, we see quite a bit of that (demonizing) on goanet, from individuals whom one would have thought should know better. Is that the look of a fish-face?:=)) Regards, GL --------------- Gabe Menezes It is true without the past there is no present and without the present there is no future. Yet there is some fish face out there who will comment - words to the effect, some dwell on the past. ------------ Gilbert Lawrence individual Goans being pioneers and breaking the 'glass ceiling.' This made it much easier for those who followed them. CULTURAL RELATIVITY (which is still a maturing science) studies customs in the context of culture as a whole and how it works relative to the existing environment and socio-economic patterns of the society. This is obviously a much more nuanced study. Cultural Relativity in a multi-cultural society is theoretically enlightening, but in practice it can lead to social disruption, even in today's world. http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20100724_3946.php * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
