So stereotypical!!!

     Viva Goa!! I feel really lucky to have been born here. I love it and no other  place could ever be home. I love that its laid back which is one of its distinctive characteristic.Most outsiders, on their first trip here, are enamored of its beauty;culture and joie de vivre way of life and end up returning to goa time and again.And can you blame them? I, personally am smitten by this little state of mine.Having said all this and established the passion i feel for my state id like to confess theres one thing about goa i implacably dislike and you may be surprised to find that this happens to be the subject of this post contrary to how i started. Its the stereotypical ideologies of most of the people here. I say "most' because it would be really wrong to generalize and say "all" as i know of so many people who dont think like that. Heres a little incident that happened this morning and as inconsequential  as it is it got me writing this.
     I went to JMP Dias(the most well known electrical store in panjim...actually, the only one known to me) this morning. This elderly (75+) english man stopped by to ask where he could get plastic sheets with adhesive on the back. The store guy was clueless so i told him his best bet would be J D Fernandes and he thanked me and walked out. Heres the funny thing-thats exactly where i was going and could have easily offered to drop him there. And it wasnt as if the thought didnt strike me. It did but for some strange  reason i held back from offering him a drop in the electricity store. When i was driving to the stationery store i kept an eye out  and did luckily spot him.He looked rather disoriented, what with people jog trotting to and fro in some inane race against....time or themselves or each other...When i pulled over and offered him a drop there were these taxi drivers parked on the other side of the road who stopped whatever it was they were doing to stare brazenly at us. Thats the thing im talking about. I felt like i was doing something wrong.Only, i wasnt. And then i realized, as ashamed as i am to say it, that the reason why i hadnt offered to drop the the man inside the store was that at some subconscious level i didnt want to be seen offering him a ride lest people judge and talk about me.  Ive had discussions with friends along the same lines and concluded that almost everyone, perhaps in varying degrees, conforms and adapts their sensibilities according to what is socially acceptable and not acceptable irrespective of right or wrong.But  thats the deduction and not the solution. So what can be done to change this? And will it ever completely change? Cause i find myself in a place where i keep crashing head on into this social barrier of what is and isnt and i make no headway.