Original sentence: However, the Archbishop of Goa Ignacio de Santa Theresa is known to have respected the native Goan clerics more than the Portuguese ones, whom he considered to be insolent and overbearing.Since the 1510 conquest, the Portuguese had been intermarrying with the natives and created a Mestiço class in Goa that followed Portuguese culture.Some Portuguese clergy bore racial prejudices against their Goan counterparts.The Franciscans further expanded on the viceregal decree of 1606 regarding making the natives literate in Portuguese to qualify for the priesthood.The Portuguese also desired a similar complete integration of the native Christians into Portuguese culture
Edited sentence: "It is very painful to realise that when our people were Hindus, they were better honoured and respected in the courts of Hindu and Muslim rulers, but after conversion we have lost much of our self-respect.A Portuguese nobleman or Minister shows greater respect to a low caste Hindu than to a Christian of high caste.Consequently, they considered the native Christians to be inferior and practised social discrimination against them.It happens quite often that a Hindu is given a chair to sit and a native Christian stands.The Archbishop of Goa Ignacio de Santa Theresa is known to have respected the native Goan clerics more than the Portuguese ones, whom he considered to be insolent and overbearing.The Franciscans further expanded on the viceregal decree of 1606 regarding making the natives illiterate in Konkani, and literate or semi-literate in Portuguese to qualify for receiving sacraments.The Jesuits—with some exceptions, and Franciscans did not bother to learn the native language Konkani.The Portuguese clergy generally bore racial prejudices against their Goan counterparts.The social attitudes of the Portuguese towards the native Christians is exemplified in a memorandum submitted by the Christians of Salcette to the Portuguese monarch João IV in 1642:.There is no way of talking to Hindus about conversion any more, because they reply that they are not in a hurry to lose their self-respect.This attitude of the Portuguese had moved many Christians in the recent years to go to the city with the headgears and the tunic of the kind the Hindus wear.While the Portuguese intermarried with some locals and spawned a Mestiço class in Goa, they desired complete acculturation of the native Christians into Portuguese culture