THE ILL EFFECTS OF MIGRATION OF GOANS TO OUTSIDE GOA/INDIA.i.
The migration of Goans
to outside India was started about over 200 years ago first migrating to India namely Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, Dakka,
Rangoon, Colombo, Karachi and to some other places and later on in the Middle
East and Africa. Then after the last
Arab - Israeli War in the Middle East where Arabs suffered just like in all the
previous wars, a most humiliating defeat from the tiny nation Israel which came
into being on 14th May in 1948 while the entire Arab World comprising
innumerable independent States came into existence hundreds of years back. In that last War fought between the Arabs and
Israel in 1972 /73, Israel with the strong support of USA in men-materials and
Logistics, totally annihilated the Arabs.
Feeling their ego was hurt, the Arabs decided to increase the Oil Prices
tremendously to teach a very good lesson
to USA and other Western countries that were part of the Axis with USA against
Arabs. When the Oil prices were increased,
the money power of Arab Countries especially the Oil Rich reached to the sky
and in order to utilize this excess of money
power into the hands of Arabs, they went for further industrialization
of their countries for which what the manpower they needed, the Arabs started
hiring in greater number from India, of
course in addition from other Asian countries too.
Taking advantage of
this situation many of the young men from Goa some of them doing lucrative jobs
and getting good salaries as per the Goan standard, they were lured for the new
jobs in the Gulf Countries for very good salaries. Gradually within the mid/end of seventies and
in the early eighties our Goan young
men who in their localities were doing very good activities for the protection of Goan culture, tradition,
language, system, Goan discipline, Goan Folksongs, Folk Tales, Goan Food and many
other attributes of their localities, Goa and Goans were not only totally uprooted from their villages and
Vaddos but also from Goa as a whole and they went abroad for greener pastures. When these Goans left from Goa there appeared
a vacuum created by their going abroad, in their localities, Vilages, Vaddos
and in Goa as a whole having no link
whatsoever between those who already left from their localities, Villages,
Vaddos and Goa and those who filled the vacuum created by those who already
migrated to the Gulf and elsewhere without creating the legacy between the old
and the new stalwarts most of them lacked most of the Goan attributes, they
were more or less like non-Goans lacking in genuine Goanness. The continuity between the new and the old
was lost. For example in my village
before going to Kuwait I was playing a leading role in everyfield in the
village, dominating almost every segment fighting against the arrogant, chors,
bamtte and Rostad and in the bargain I gained lot of respect and allegiance of
course with some enemies too who were like toys for me. So too my other brothers and in fact one of
them Jose MARIE was the most dynamic in our locality. It is on record in one election (only one (PANCHAYAT)election he contested which was forcibly imposed on him by the voters) he got
elected without even he doing any
campaigning personally nor door to door canvassing. Voters elected him on their own
freewill). Such
