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Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To All Guardians of Goan Culture . You cannot preach culture without knowledge of your own history ., as History molds your culture . Before the Portuguese came to Goa , There were only Hindus and a few Muslims in Goa The Muslims came along with Adil Shah. The Pope divided the world and hence the Portuguese Considered it their right to go to the east in the name of preaching Christianity ,. What makes Goan Culture unique is the fact that two centuries plus of Portuguese rule has seen a part of their Culture rub off into our very India Goan life style. Hinduism as a religion has always been accommodative and hence you have a no of Gods & Sects within Hinduism. It was for this accommodative nature of Hinduism that our Hindu ancestors readily accepted the Portuguese way of life, Unfortunately only to be exploited and made slaves. Goa is famous for its GSB Hindu community which were driven our of Goa by the Portuguese and they moved towards Mangalore and Pune. Some of the remaining converted. Goa was and is the Seat of Hindu Culture. Catholics form only 30 % of Goan Population , hence it is wrong for you to preach that Goan culture it totally represented by Portuguese Culture' You are forgetting the remaining majority 70 % . Goan Culture is the Great KonKani Cutlure . Which is distinct of Portuguese culture but is accommodative to it. Goan's moved out to places like Mumbai & North India well under Portuguese rule is proof enough that Portuguese rule did not offer them a good life nor a solution to their problems. Today Goans have moved to the shores of other nations just like other fellow Indians speaks about the common line of thinking of both. If other cultures tolerate your Migration to their land then why do you scream when other cultures migrate to your land. ? When ever there is migration there is bound to be displacement of the Local Population. If you have displaced other be ready for others to displace you. When I spoke of Marwadi's settling down in the North East , I was hinting you of the things to come if you do not wake up and take control of your life and Land . .That you failed to understand the message in my mail shows your short sighted mind To be tolerant to others is a Christian Virtue inherited from my very Hindu ancestors. Hence I do not ask you to pick up your Guns and get after fellow migrants , but just ask of you to think of ways how you can get fellow Goans to remain sons of the soil and not move away from Goa. ( Migrate). Loud histrionics of our so called Guardians of Goan Culture are the resemblance of politicians in the making . Always trying to motivate the aam Janta into factionalism . . The Aaam Janta of Free Goa represents the amm Janta of Free India , we are no longer slaves to ignorance . We have the freedom to think and act keeping in mind that along with freedom comes an obligation to maintain peace and harmony among Goans of all faith .Your histrionics sound like cheap gimmicks to take you to power , as you certainly know that you are not capable of reaching the pinnacle of power without a divide and rule policy. My message to you is not to waste time shouting from roof tops and playing the blame game , but come together, drive away the corrupt and make your land the truly heaving on earth as spoken off in the great Indian Scriptures. Salves and sycophants do not understand the language of free men . What is your culture ?.... Thinking that your best friends wife is your own,? Just as most in Europe does???? Regards Cheryl
