During the four and half centuries of Governador/Patriarca rule , Catholic masses i.e. most Goan Catholics were groaning under the grinding poverty with lack of educational and health facilities , hence they were economically a very deprived lot not to mention caste oppression which was heavily weighing upon them.
During these onerous centuries, there was no light at the end of the tunnel for them except when some of them started migrating to India and became economically somewhat better of and when the Bomboicar came down to Goa on a holiday he was looked upon with awe. This stage of heroworship lasted till the end of the Second World War after which they shifted their attention towards the Africa returned Goyemkar so much so every mother wanted her daughter to marry an Africanista . During the seventies and eighties it was the Gulf returned who was the cynosure in their eyes . Now that the Indian Govt. has embarked upon the capitalist way of life and workers are being paid somewhat better salaries , gone are the days when the Goan in Goa heartily welcomed a diaspora Goan. Today even the economically well oiled Goans of North America and the U.K. are not even worth a second glance for them.
