Hi Doc: I am not talking about privately hosted or partly hosted functions.
The functions I refer to are where 400 - 600 people attend and one probably only knows a handful of people. Perhaps it is not in our DNA. Perhaps there are just a few badly behaved people. (incl. yours truly sometimes) Regards Tim de Mello ---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:51:13 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Customer Service Concept in India > > On 22 November 2013 11:16, Tim de Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1: I have attended many dances here in Canada - which invariably have a > buffet dinner included. > > 2: you should watch our Canadian Goans. > > 3: They will pile up their plates like they have never eaten before - quite > a disgusting sight - and if shrimps are on the menu, clean up all the > shrimps before the most of the others get to the buffet table. > > 4: It is in our DNA. > > > > Dear Tim, > > You are a reasonable gentleman. That is why I am reticent to disagree with > you. But, on this point, I must 'disagree, albeit with a proviso' > > Q: Whose DNA are you referring to (1) Goans (2) Goan Catholics (c) Canadian > Goan Catholics (d) Canadian Goan Catholics who attend dances in Canada? > > > I ask because my experience with Goans, in general, be it in Poona, Panjim, > London, in the US (North East), in Canada (non-dance & limited to Toronto) > and in my own family unit has been quite different. > > We have been hosted by Goans and we have hosted Goans, we even had three > large functions in the US attended by Goans (part-hosted by us). In the one > we part-hosted 5 years ago, there were a fair amount of Goans (some from > East Africa) - NO such negative experience, NOT even at the open bar. In > fact, the bar was kept open even during the dinner as the expected > (premium) liquid quota was apparently hardly expended. > > I have said this before and I was castigated by those have not shared my > experience - even so, I will repeat it here: My first real experience with > Goans (outside my parents' home in Poona and in Poona) was in Panjim in > 1965. Folks were genteel and kind to each other, men would stand up when > ladies came to sit at the table and allow ladies to serve themselves first > at the buffet table. That was so, even during our last visit there. > > I submit that, IF any change has occurred, it might be a good idea to look > at the environment and not the genetics ...to find pointers toward etiology. > > jc
