Ugly news out of Britain today. Author Kiran Desai, winner of the Man Booker Prize winner for The Inheritance of Loss, says she has been insulted for being Indian by Britons.
“I certainly have been walking the streets of London and elsewhere in England and people have said, ‘Go back to where you come from’ or, you know, ,You damned Paki,'” she said recently.
This comes to light because actress Shilpa Shetty was in a reality show where she took some harsh words from other participants.
I suppose some news commentators/reporters will be asking whether all Britons are bigots, but that’s a bit ridiculous. Do they ask whether everyone is a murderer after a rash a homicide reports?
From our stupid news desk comes a report on comedic duo Baigent and Leigh who have returned to court to appeal the ruling against last year’s plagiarism suit. They are the authors of that wonderful fantasy, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, and wanted to sue Dan Brown for stealing their imaginative ideas. The suit was thrown out, hence the appeal.
“A Random House spokesman said: ‘We regret … that more time and money is being spent trying to establish a case that was so comprehensively defeated in the High Court,'” according to Reuters.
That’s the thanks Brown gets for helping make their formerly obscure book a best seller, & even naming Leigh Teabing after them, too.
I don’t want to belittle this problem but I have to ask; ‘compared to what?’ Surely not to conditions in India. (Where they regularly burn down christian churches, as one example.) People always find forced integration (which is what our political immigration policy is) difficult to deal with… no matter where on earth they live. In my opinion people ought to give the majority blame to our ‘utopian’ (ie. marxist) politicans. I see ‘globalization’ as an almost inevitable process, but I think the pace at which it’s happening is fraught with danger.
Good point, sr. I should have thought of that myself.
It seems to me that Europe today presents a phenomenon never before seen in the history of Man–one where a culture is not only expected to willingly acquiesce in its own replacement by an alien culture, but in which members of the earlier culture are required not only to say nothing against it, but to _think_ nothing against it.