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18 Apr 2010, 00:35
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I work with this guy:
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It's a shame that democracy allows such people the right to vote on the future of our country.
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It's a shame that democracy allows such people the right to vote on the future of our country.
sad its hard to find good dictator :x
Anyway dude's not worth going into discussion with by the looks :D
To answer it succinctly: british people mock indians for eating curry because british people know very little about indian culture outside of the cuisine.
I think that is a fairly good historical answer to his question to be honest. Your answer, however, was rather trite and historically ignorant: “silly Imperialists, they simply did not know enough about Indian culture; they simply would not think twice about mocking Indian culture if they knew enough!” Ironically, it was probably the complete opposite. The British abused and distorted their knowledge of Asian culture to fit their ideological ends, particularly with regards to race, which is why they were so successful compared to most other European cultures.
I can't argue with your facts, only your conclusion, and the faulty logic used to arrive at it. You have taken a large leap by assuming that the westerners would attribute their conquering of india to food, unless you're suggesting that everyone in the western world was aware of the production methods for both wheat and rice, and also their use outside of the food industry. If they were so intent on mocking indian food, why would it become so popular in England? Surely we would not accept a diet we thought to be inferior.
What you have ignored is that most people are not particularly aware of historical fact, so even if your argument does explain why westerners originally mocked indians for eating curry, it does not explain why that continues to be the case. Unless of course you mean to say that the mocking has been passed down in an unbroken line, in which case the reason that people mock indians for eating curry is still not the one you suggested: it would be 'because that is british culture'.
My answer was not trite. The british mock practically all foreign cultures, and they tend to mock them based upon what is widely known. Most people don't know all that much about indian culture, but what they do know is that indians eat curry. You could mock indians based upon some esoteric fact about their history or religion, but no one would know what you were talking about: however, if you say "Dude, you smell like a curry house!" everyone can share and identify with that information and join in the mocking. It the same reason people mock americans for being fat, or the french for being cowards: you can argue that it's a comment on history, but really it's just because they're cultural stereotypes that everyone is aware of.
With regards to the ongoing stigma of Asian culture, it is quite simple: the racist in question does not care about food per se, because he is attempting to reassert the colonial paradigm where British culture was institutionally superior to Indian culture, and where racism was also institutionalised; ironically, the coloniser would probably justify eating curry (i.e. being hypocritical) as his right, but an Indian would not be able to gain access to British culture because they had been colonised, though the British did create a “middle class” of natives between themselves and the population to create stability. Anyway, you do not actually need any more proof of the colonial paradigm: you have been using it all along and so did hentai himself. There is no such thing as “curry” in Indian culture; it is a general term constructed by the British to avoid unnecessary complexity.
It's obvious that mocking is done, in some cases, to establish superiority over another person or group of persons, though to assert in the case of mocking Indians that this is an expression of a wish to return to the Raj is a rash generalisation; but hentai did not ask why are indians mocked, he asked why are indians mocked for eating curry: the answer to that is simple - Curry is a well known part of Indian culture.
Pseudo intellectual cunts like you.
Werent there several secret documents leaked in the last weeks from the labour party, which say that they forced the immigration in Uk to new heights [ 200.000-800.00 ] in order to minimize the conservative voting pool ?
Lil bit like our npd your labour party, but instead of white pride they practice multi kulti as radical as the others :P
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/7198329/Labours-secret-plan-to-lure-migrants.html
better ?
End of the day, they're merely allegations. And regardless of that, I'm not a Labour or Tory supporter anyway :p
E; is this the same guy that was telling you at the pub that the government should 'just get 'em out m8'?
They will call you a conspiracy bum, because things like, powerful people, that might get together and have a plan... doesn't happen! you're a turd, a conspiracy idiot!!!
"While he plots revenge against the billiard-playing officer, he fancies himself as the gloomy Silvio in Pushkin's The Shot, who cast a threatening shadow across the path of a man more fortunate than himself. And when he heaps passionate scorn on society in his sarcastic toasting of Zverkov, who has failed to invite him to his farewell dinner, his rhetoric puts him on par with Lermontov".
I'm not racist but i'd like to send them back to middle east where they come from. I dont care about their color or culture...but if they dont want to work, then they should get the fuck out of our country...the decent one should stay ofc.
thats to your immigration&racism problem.
I have no problem with afroamericans, vietnamese, arabas and others coz they FUCKING WORK.
I'm just sick of how usa, uk and other countries talk rubbish about racism in cze. You have same problems so all of you should just mind your own business.
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