True Vivian. I think one can safely say North African blood. In the old days, there was trade with the mid-east/North Africa (stories told)...and strangely, Endia never excelled in athletics on the world stage but two or three Goichis did very well...Antao, there was Eddy Sequera (came 4th in Munich)...and one other if I am not mistaken. So what? Well, all of them were specialists in middle distance (Eddy in the 400mts)......and this is a North African specialty.
As well, remember some bright spark in the govt decided to adopt certain ethnic Endians for a specialty in a particular sport in the late 80s?.....nothing came off it. Their theory (heard it on Dori-dharshan) was to adopt kids of African ethnicity from villages on the west coast of Endia and train 'em in athletics, folks from Andaman and Nikobar Islands in football (remember the Williams family that played for Dompo in the 70s/80s?)....and so on. My guess is this program failed and one has not seen any shining stars emerge. Regards On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Vivian A. DSouza <socorro...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Tony DeSa while mentioning many of the genetical inputs that make the "pure" > Niz Goencars of today, has forgotten to mention the > African (Negroid) race. I am certian that geneticists can prove that > African genes are mixed in the pot puri of what constitutes a "pure" > non-ghanti Goan. We are indeed a mixed breed. This is not meant to be > derogatory, because mixed breeds are tough and resilient. > Lets not consider ourselves to be pure anything. We are an hybrid race. > > >