On 7 August 2012 21:09, Roland Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
> A few unthinking individuals have been mistaking Selma’s article The New > Goan –PPP of Aug 6 in Goa’s Herald, for ingratitude towards the East > African community. > Let’s look at a few issues that have manifested themselves as a result. > > Goans have to be able to take criticism. While many Goans especially > educated ones, have long since absorbed this truism, others living in > western, advanced countries, surprisingly still have a Goan village > mentality of the 50s, one that is far removed from what prevails in today’s > Goa. Thanks to economic progress in that little state and the furtherance > of education accessible to all sections of the population that would once > have seemed unimaginable, what she has said would be accepted in stride and > curiosity by today’s educated and cultured Goan generation. > > > Roland. > Toronto. > COMMENT: I find the response repulsive and condescending, as was the article written and published in the oHERALDo - a big majority of the GOA UK Ltd Board are ex EA Goans; I trust they will take it in their stride to be referred as ageing, doddery and limping. -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
