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Reality TV racism row grips Britain
Reuters ^ | By Mike Collett-White

Posted on 01/17/2007 7:07:21 AM PST by quesney

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To: VeniVidiVici

When I see people call any tiny and sometimes imagined rebuff as racism, I remember how far we have come and note that race pimps just won't give it up.


21 posted on 01/17/2007 7:48:21 AM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: dinasour

"This is a racist country," she said in the Guardian newspaper. "There is almost no inter-penetration of English and Indian cultures in Britain."


1) This is NOT a racist country, not by the standards of 95% of the worlds countries. Liberal assert this all the time, but saying it often and loudly does NOT make it true.

2) If there is no interpenetration of English and Indian culture in Britain, that is a matter of choice of both English AND indians, not so? Besides, I disagree. I think there is an increasing amount of "interpenetration", especially amongst the young.


22 posted on 01/17/2007 7:50:27 AM PST by Vanders9
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To: Bon mots

Its a female thing. Every series of BB there has ever been there is always a squabble between the women, usually 2-3 weeks in (bit earlier this series) and one of them is always isolated and picked on. Its the law of the wolf pack.


23 posted on 01/17/2007 7:52:15 AM PST by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9
NOT AGAIN...what IS it about this american perception that the British have bad dentistry??

From the Telegraph, January 12 edition:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/01/12/do1201.xml

Now, let's drill a little deeper. When was the last time you went to a dentist who was British? Tough one, eh? My idea of hell is dental surgery, so I'm not exactly a season ticket-holder at the local practice. Even so, I haven't been worked on by a British dentist for nearly 25 years. My daughter, who is 18, has never been to one.

24 posted on 01/17/2007 7:57:01 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: quesney

It isn't just that they are jealous. We caught the first week of the show while we are over there and I've been following it since we got back.

Shilpa is very high and mighty and spoiled. And that came across very quickly on the show. I'm not surprised she rubbed people the wrong way.

That said, Jade Goody is a nasty little thing - I'm happy not to have to be subjected to her on the cover of all the rag magazines and newspapers everyday.

But it's not racism. That much I agree on.


25 posted on 01/17/2007 7:58:35 AM PST by elc (Guns kill people the same way the spoon made Rosie O'Donnell fat.)
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To: quesney
So now socially challenged losers who can't get a date can more easily find mail order brides from afar who would get with anybody for the chance to come to America. "Feminine grace, poise, warmth and family values," yeah I'm sure that's what you are getting from some Bulgarian chick advertising herself out on the net to "rich" Americans.
26 posted on 01/17/2007 8:17:36 AM PST by TKDietz (")
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To: Vanders9
NOT AGAIN...what IS it about this american perception that the British have bad dentistry??

Perhaps it's all those yellow teeth Guardian readers!!

I can understand that!!

27 posted on 01/17/2007 8:19:17 AM PST by snowman_returns (Destination over the rainbow!!!!!!....)
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To: snowman_returns

You are dead right Snowman. This ought to be a non-event.


28 posted on 01/17/2007 8:22:18 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: VeniVidiVici
"Too bad it looks like she's a whore for PETA."

Perhaps you are unaware about said person's cooking of chicken curry, in the programme. Lol!

29 posted on 01/17/2007 9:22:12 AM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: CarrotAndStick

Now THAT is funny! She'll be disowned!


30 posted on 01/17/2007 9:24:26 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Celebrate Mediocrity!)
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To: VeniVidiVici
Supposedly the chicken was under-done. Anyway, here goes:

Shilpa showed her culinary skills this weekend after Jackiey, one of the participants, was voted out of the show. Everybody thought that Shilpa would leave the show halfway given the verbal onslaught Jackiey unleashed on the Indian actor. Shilpa surely must have heaved a sigh of relief when Jackiey was evicted.

In fact, Shilpa was so upset that she cried on Jermaine Jackson's shoulder and even tried to shift her attention to the "sexy" Dirk Benedict - the American actor on the show who has also publicly admitted he has got the hots for her, reported Shilpa's publicist Dale Bhagwagar.

Link.

31 posted on 01/17/2007 9:37:44 AM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: elc

That said, Jade Goody is a nasty little thing

Jane Goody could never in a million years be described as little, she has more chins than a Chinese phone book.


32 posted on 01/17/2007 10:28:22 AM PST by MadMitch
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To: MadMitch

That is true. Although, she looks much better now than she did when she was first on BB.

And of course, to answer her infamous question - YES JADE, you are mingin'!


33 posted on 01/17/2007 11:03:23 AM PST by elc (Guns kill people the same way the spoon made Rosie O'Donnell fat.)
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To: quesney

When you think about it, American men are very much sought after globally - many women in every country dream of landing an American husband.

There are over 3 billion women in the world and less than 150 million American men. So that's over 20 gals to choose from for every guy.

So boys, we don't have to pick high-maintenance, domineering American women. I didn't!


34 posted on 01/17/2007 1:59:32 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: TKDietz

"So now socially challenged losers who can't get a date can more easily find mail order brides from afar who would get with anybody for the chance to come to America. "Feminine grace, poise, warmth and family values," yeah I'm sure that's what you are getting from some Bulgarian chick advertising herself out on the net to "rich" Americans."

Let me guess: you're female, big city, East or West Coast?


35 posted on 01/17/2007 5:58:52 PM PST by quesney
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To: quesney

A bunch of fat british cows going after a pretty Indian actress.

Not surprising at the behaviour of these insecure british girls.


36 posted on 01/17/2007 6:38:24 PM PST by GregH
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To: quesney

...and here's my second guess: you're a happily married public defender from a small town down south. ;)


37 posted on 01/17/2007 6:53:09 PM PST by quesney
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To: dinasour

Do some Indian parents cause an outrage if their children date/engage Pakistanis? Or is racism only something found in the white Western world?


38 posted on 01/17/2007 9:02:59 PM PST by weegee (The Left is worried that '24' will have the same effect as LBJ's 'Daisy' mushroom ad.)
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To: Vanders9
British optometry must be as far along as their dentistry.

NOT AGAIN...what IS it about this american perception that the British have bad dentistry??

Call it what it is, racism. Oh wait, both nations are majority white. Well maybe it's just a stereotype and a joke then.

39 posted on 01/17/2007 9:06:26 PM PST by weegee (The Left is worried that '24' will have the same effect as LBJ's 'Daisy' mushroom ad.)
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To: DeFault User

What does this prove? I've only ever been seen by British dentists. I dont have any problems with the service.


40 posted on 01/18/2007 1:05:16 AM PST by Vanders9
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