On 12 June 2011 15:21, Eddie Fernandes <[email protected]> wrote:
The Goans will probably go down in history as one of the peoples who fell in > love with their colonisers: Vasco Da Gama and his successors. Don't the Europeans love the Romans too? It could be argued that there's a difference between acknowledging part of culture which has got 'transplanted' over you over the centuries, and "falling in love with" your "coloniser". > When a Goan asks a white Aussie, where do you come from, > he will answer Australia. When a Goan asks another Goan > the same question, he or she will say, Aldona, Majorda, > Benaulim etc. The above logic doesn't sound very convincing. Of course a Goan would expect a more specific answer *simply* because s/he knows the geography better. It is like arguing: when a white Aussie asks a Goan where do you come from, he will answer Goa (or even India). When a white Aussie asks another white Aussie the same question, he or she will say, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney etc. So what? FN
