☆ Ethnicity ~ Monday, 30 July 2018

I was born in Bombay, India to parents who came from both Goa and Nairobi, Kenya. Our ethnicity is Goan but my problem begins with this background. Are we of Indian descent, if so, which group? Do we have Portuguese genes in our DNA? What does it mean to say I'm of Goan descent. Before 1500, what was our religion? And why does this matter? So many strange questions. Why should anyone care? Will any of this help make better vindaloo? Or explain why I grew up in America but feel no kinship with American people? Am I American? Or, am I a Goan? Or did I land on earth from another planet and forgot where I came from and why I am here? Or maybe this is hell?