Here is an interesting stat for Santosh, Thelma and Charu:  the stream 
of young and not so young catholic Goans who were employed by my mother to 
perform domestic chores fifty years ago were never literate.  Their public 
display of "christianity" was limited to forty minutes of worship in a language 
none of understood - Latin. I believe the precepts of that religion did not 
influence their conduct or ethics.  Like the good folk in our Rolly's favourite 
- 'Annie Get Your Gun,'  they simply did 'what comes naturally.' 

   This Goan lived a life in common with the vast majority of his rural Indian 
compatriots, one of hard sustenance;  one ate only if it rained, and did not 
aspire to a salary in a non-cash economy.
    On certainly did not encounter Portugal beyond the perimeter of a few 
towns, 
in any of it's national manifestations: humans, media and product, both 
material 
and cultural.
     The implication of the existence of a 'Portuguese' lifestyle and ethos, as 
applied to common village existence is a misleading canard.



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