As Lorraine Alberto begins her Portuguese class at Goa University, students from the former colony are in short supply. Across Goa, once administered by Lisbon, there is little appetite for the territory's 450 years of European heritage after a few short generations of Indian rule. Ramshackle colonial homes and Bollywood's increasing cultural dominance portend the
Experience in senegal is different, also. not only the post-colonial experience, because in saint-louis we had lots of influences, i think. anthony: arab, portugese, uh . man: so, because, yes, the portuguese and the english first they were here and after that, the morocco, from the morocco. marie-caroline: my feeling was this that because we are at the crossing of various roads, eh, independently from the colonization prior, makes the senegalese people very open-minded, very good negotiators, also. anthony: marie-caroline camara is a st. louis metis senegalese father, french mother and she s hosted a lunch with some friends and colleagues, all of whom consider themselves senegalese first, before anything. marie-caroline: and, and my feeling compared to other african countries, is that maybe it s come also from, uh, the, the wolof women because the metis family here, people were really married. well, at least the descendants . anthony: between wolof and
Comes, came through here. woman: il sont, il sont. anthony: attitude about many things are decidedly different here. where many post-colonial cultures are ambivalent or conflicted about their bloodlines picking black or white to identity with here, people are proud of who they are and where they came from. all of it. anthony: i m curious why the post-colonial experience in senegal is so different than the post-colonial experience almost everywhere else. man: i think that the pre-colonial and the colonial experience in senegal is different, also. not only the post-colonial experience, because in saint-louis we had lots of influences, i think. anthony: arab, portugese, uh . man: so, because, yes, the portuguese and the english first they were here and after that, the morocco, from the morocco. marie-caroline: my feeling was this that because we are at the crossing of various
woman: il sont, il sont. anthony: attitude about many things are decidedly different here. where many post-colonial cultures are ambivalent or conflicted about their bloodlines picking black or white to identity with here, people are proud of who they are and where they came from. all of it. anthony: i m curious why the post-colonial experience in senegal is so different than the post-colonial experience almost everywhere else. man: i think that the pre-colonial and the colonial experience in senegal is different, also. not only the post-colonial experience, because in saint-louis we had lots of influences, i think. anthony: arab, portugese, uh . man: so, because, yes, the portuguese and the english first
anthony: attitude about many things are decidedly different here. where many post-colonial cultures are ambivalent or conflicted about their bloodlines picking black or white to identity with here, people are proud of who they are and where they came from. all of it. anthony: i m curious why the post-colonial experience in senegal is so different than the post-colonial experience almost everywhere else. man: i think that the pre-colonial and the colonial experience in senegal is different, also. not only the post-colonial experience, because in saint-louis we had lots of influences, i think. anthony: arab, portugese, uh man: so, because, yes, the portuguese and the english first they were here and after that, the morocco, from the morocco. marie-caroline: my feeling was this that because we are at the crossing of various roads, eh, independently from the colonization prior, makes