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To Goanet -
J. Colaco wrote:
>Frederick is a step-too-fast ahead of himself wrt # [1] above. Is he
suggesting
>that IF all Goans, who have emigrated post 1961, had stayed put in
Goa, then
>Goa would be a less dirty place?
JC-bab,
Time to shove into the trash all this humbug from Admin Noronha and his
tribe.
Let's first consider the trash talk about Goans who have left Goa having
no further claim to their hometown. One word - bu...@$t. And one
finger - you know which one. You can no more disown Goa than you can
your own mother simply because you went off elsewhere.
But you have to see them for the two-faced wussies that they are. When
I was in Goa for 2 years, on the ground virtually everyday, they
couldn't give me this doo-doo about talking from a remote place. So
what do they do? They instead start a whisper campaign, post chits to
Goanet with insinuations imputing unholy motives, secret BJP funding,
this and that, all supposedly figured out from their potty perch at Cafe
Prakash.
None of this worked, of course, since I turned out to be 100 times the
rascal that Admin Noronha thought I was. But you can see that a more
sensitive soul would have been easily thrown off the track.
Let us also briefly recognize the larger context, this strange Indian
tendency to run down other Indians who have emigrated. We can identify
two primary classes of these folk.
One, the
"I-would-have-gone-abroad-if-I-wanted-to-but-I-chose-to-stay-back" guy
or gal. Their claim to an exalted existence is that they made the
supreme sacrifice whereas you bolted to the white man's land. In their
mind, you are now the white man's slave whereas they remain virtuous and
free (except for the Brut perfume he reeks of, and that Blackberry, and
oh, the KFC chicken he just stuffed into this mouth). The truth in
99.9% (statistics obtained from my scientifically conducted research) of
these cases is that if they had the opportunity you had, they would have
been outta there in less than a nanosecond.
But don't tell him (or her) that. You and we all desire peace in the world.
Two, the guy who went abroad and then returned. This, in his view,
gives him the ultimate bragging rights over NRIs, and he lives solely to
exercise this right.
Now, in the interest of fairness, we must also mention that some NRIs do
nothing to inspire affection. I am talking about those who come to
believe that the very act of crossing the seven seas endows them with
superior abilities etc etc. I guess this is much less of an issue now
than it was say, over a decade ago, with spread of the internet and of
course, the spread of wealth and consumer goods in India. I mean, today
nobody back home gives a sh*t to the NRI for being an NRI, and rightly so.
This completes my contribution to the dept of social sciences on Goanet.
Regards,
r
