Just returned from a long holiday. My thoughts -
When we first arrived in New Zealand 35 years ago and heard people working on
the
Cruise Ships use the word 'Goanese' Goan residents here frowned and I
still
remember a friend (since expired) saying Those from Samoa are Samoans so
Following the Goanese debate, it seems to me that we get irritated
because the word has connotations that are associated with a lower
class status -- the ABCs of the ayahs, butlers, cooks and the like.
Well, if this is the case, why be embarassed by it? Isn't that a part
of the history of Goan
Dear Fellow Goans,
I believe that the only information about the origin of the word Goanese was
given
by Irene Heredia many years ago.
In this age of egalitarianism it is consider improper to use words to
differentiate
groups of people according to their place in society as determined by
