An Insult to Pigs

Apologies about the image above but I was terrified of causing offence by posting an image of Jade Goody without any make-up on. I say this at the risk of offending any animal rights activists out there.

Finally, Britain's finest example of its tolerant multicuturalism has got the boot for her incessant attacks on a nation of over 1 billion people.

So why is this Channel 4 filth making its way onto Holding on to a Cinder? Not for any love I have for BB and its deviant participants but because it has highlighted a number of issues, not least the intense level of racism within White British society. A number of articles have been published regarding this but I will just post one which really caught my eye by Martin Jacques.

British society is dripping in racism, but no one is prepared to admit it

[Some excerpts below]

Almost from the outset, Big Brother's racism has had a new and novel dimension. Because Gordon Brown was in India at the time, and was asked about it during his trip, the issue immediately acquired an international dimension. In an earlier era, of course, this would have been dismissed as of no consequence: the natives could safely be ignored. But no longer. We saw this just a year ago in relation to the Danish cartoons and their ridicule of Islam. Europe used to ignore what the former colonial world felt. There was no feedback loop. But such was the reaction in the Islamic world that it could not be ignored. That, though, was in the context of the Muslim world which, in global terms, remains weak and marginalised.

Racial abuse of Indians is a very different matter. India is a rising giant; we can no longer afford to ignore, as we once did with impunity, the views and feelings of a country that represents one-fifth of humanity. We live in what increasingly looks like a global goldfish bowl where what we do at home will be seen by the rest of the world - and duly reacted to, in a way that cannot be ignored.

The test of our behaviour, of how racist we are, is no longer what the white British think. That started to change with the self-awareness and growing confidence of our own ethnic minorities. But the matter does not end there. The test now, in this instance, is what Indians in India think, how they perceive us.



Read the whole article below

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1994723,00.html